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A transverse member set across the front of the bottom part of an alcove *tokonoma °‚ΜŠΤ to hide the rough structural members that are used to make the alcove surface higher than that of the straw mats *tatami τ in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu ’ƒŽΊ. In a formal tea ceremony room *shoin ‘‰@ the tokogamachi is chamfered and covered with black lacquer. For semi-formal alcoves, one type of tokogamachi has several coats of lacquer tameurushi —­Ž½ except on the unstripped bark part of the chamferred post. Another method is to use a thin coat of lacquered so that the wood grain can be seen, sukashi-nuri “§“h. At Nanzenji Konchi-in Hassouseki “μ‘TŽ›‹ΰ’n‰@”ͺ‘‹Θ in Kyoto, there is an unusual alcove frame with black lacquer applied on unglazed ceramic. At Nishihonganji Kinkaryou Chaseki Ό–{ŠθŽ›‹ΰ‰Ψ—Ύ’ƒΘ in Kyoto, very black baked Seto ceramic *setoyaki £ŒΛΔ is used for the tokogamachi. For the hut type tea ceremony alcoves, the tokogamachi is made from boards with bark remaining or logs from various kinds of trees. Sometimes it is finished only with scraping by an adze *chouna ηα.
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