The tokonoma is a very quaint feature of a Japanese house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

In the Japanese New Year celebrations, the display of a growing miniature plum or apricot tree known as tokonoma hardly ever misses.    From Wordnik.com.  [EzineArticles] Reference

The third wall, a solid one of smoke-blue plaster, held the niche called "tokonoma," where pictures are hung and flower vases set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

This is the vase which stands before the tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

De Gier looked at the tokonoma in the corner of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese Corpse]

Also between the men, and above them to the right, was Sato's tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

At one end are two alcoves with floors of polished wood, called tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

There was a TV in the room's tokonoma instead of a vase with a fresh flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

After a time, he lifted his head and studied the words on the tokonoma scroll.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

The Emperor, of course, never comes, and so the tokonoma is no more than a name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

Kano sat as she had left him, motionless, now, as the white jade vase within the tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

He went back across the office, through the open passageway to the tokonoma where Nicholas had first caught sight of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Tengu knelt before the earthenware vase which stood atop the raised platform of the tokonoma, the contemplative alcove within Masashigi Kusunoki's study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

When they were seated, Sato made a small noise in the back of his throat, no more than if he were clearing the passage, but immediately a figure appeared through the half-open door to the tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

This sketch, unfinished, for the Kappa was a mere indication of red locks and a tall, thin form, stood against a pillar of the tokonoma at just the angle where the soft light of the butsu-dan shed a pale glow across it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

On the other half of the room, occupying the same side as the tokonoma, is a series of peculiar shelves like those of an open Japanese cabinet, though larger; and at the top of these is a little closet closed by sliding doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

In his mind, this twilit winter's afternoon, Shizuka and Koei were inextricably entwined, and the deeper he descended into the Shinto valley, the more his personal memories were caught up in the tendrils of history that endured here, overcoming the advent of plastic geta and television tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

On the tokonoma, in a rare bronze of Sung workmanship, lay a single morning-glory -- the queen of the whole garden!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference

Cats are mischievous: they tear the mattings, and make holes in the shoji, and sharpen their claws upon the pillars of tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

It may, in extreme cases, be much less; for a certain kind of Japanese garden can be contrived small enough to put in a tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

When a tea-master has arranged a flower to his satisfaction he will place it on the tokonoma, the place of honour in a Japanese room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference

The pillar of the tokonoma should be of a different kind of wood from the other pillars, in order to break any suggestion of monotony in the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [the-inbetween.com] Reference

In placing a vase of an incense burner on the tokonoma, care should be taken not to put it in the exact centre, lest it divide the space into equal halves.    From Wordnik.com.  [the-inbetween.com] Reference

Behind some bronzes of the Japanese Hercules destroying the demons and other mythical heroes was a large alcove, or tokonoma, decorated with peacock, stork, and crane panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Terror] Reference

Our guest room had a tatami-mat floor with a Shinto tokonoma (viewing alcove), shoji-screens separating the rooms and a private terrace overlooking the Zen garden complete with carp pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

Again, if you go into a noon-tea on some irritatingly hot summer day, you may discover in the darkened coolness of the tokonoma a single lily in a hanging vase; dripping with dew, it seems to smile at the foolishness of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference

The order of precedence having been mutually agreed upon while resting in the machiai, the guests one by one will enter noiselessly and take their seats, first making obeisance to the picture or flower arrangement on the tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference

Such a garden, in a vessel no larger than a fruit-dish, is called koniwa or toko-niwa, and may occasionally be seen in the tokonoma of humble little dwellings so closely squeezed between other structures as to possess no ground in which to cultivate an outdoor garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

Or turn the spot into a 'tokonoma'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

“You don’t?” the commissaris asked, and looked at the scroll which formed the background of the two wild roses in the tokonoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese Corpse]

In the tokonoma hangs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference