Tokonoma

How it is arranged

Collections

Not species and not price, but four different arguments about what a tree in a pot is for. Most people who buy from us buy twice from the same one.


  • Heritage Specimens2 available

    Trees old enough to have outlived the people who started them, each with the full record of whose hands it has passed through.

  • Shohin & Mame2 available

    Under twenty centimetres and no less finished for it. The hardest discipline in the craft, and the easiest to live with.

  • Yamadori2 available

    Collected off the hill rather than grown in a field. Deadwood, movement, and trunks no nursery could produce in a working lifetime.

  • Forest & Landscape1 available

    Plantings rather than single trees: groups on slab, root over rock, and the long views they imply.