Orlando Bonsai » Tokonoma https://www.orlandobonsai.com The purpose of this site is to share and enjoy the art, history and horticulture of bonsai and to provide current bonsai news and information. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Tokonoma Competition https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=790 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=790#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:35:28 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=790 The Kawa Bonsai Club’s, Joy of Bonsai will be held in January and they are lining up a competition for those that participated in the Tokonoma building class last year. All of those that took the class can bring back their Tokonoma with a display set up to compete against each other. Sounds like fun.


Here’s the group from last year in a Photoshop project I did. If you haven’t seen these little displays, you really need to. They are really something special.


]]> https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?feed=rss2&p=790 0 Tokonoma time https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=785 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=785#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:27:12 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=785 I participated in a Sean Smith workshop during the Joy of Bonsai for building a miniature Tokonoma.  It was a lot of fun and a great price. 


This was the first steps of constructing the Tokonoma. Sevrel types of woods were used, however I really can’t remember them at this time.

I love this picture! At first it looks like a computer course with people sitting around laptops, but they are only these wooden things. I like to think of it as an Amish Computer Training Class.

More supplies are shown here. It was put together with only glue. Really a great kit that Sean provided.

The side panel had a window that was later fitted with a bamboo treatment.

Here is the finished room with a tree from Louise Leister. Hard to tell the scale of it because it really looks like a full sized room.

I had a little bit of fun with Photoshop after the class by inserting pictures of all of the people that took the class. This photo actually became a bit famous and is used in newsletters and advertisments for all sorts of things.


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