Japanese Room
Our home is very ordinary with one notable exception - our Japanese room. I'm virtually certain there's no other like it in Oklahoma and there are very few like it in the U.S. During years of marriage we have accumulated many things from the Land of the Rising Sun and needed someplace to display them so we converted one room to a Japanese style room . As you can see, it has tatami mats, or at least what appears to be tatami mats, on the floor.
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There's a paper-covered sliding window, and a tokonomo. And displayed in the room are over 300 items from Japan.
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There's a complete set of utensils for the Japanese tea ceremony, as well as more than thirty chawan, or tea bowls, for serving cermonial tea. It's rare to find such a set in Japanese homes, much less in a home in Oklahoma.
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There's a child's size samuari warrior set given to our oldest son at birth by his grandparents in Japan. There's a nice collection of various kinds of Japanese folding fans, and there's a large collection of Kokeshi dolls (the wooden dolls shown above) which my wife started collecting as a child, and they come from throughout Japan.
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There's a beautiful silk brocade wedding kimono with exquisite workmanship.There are several different kinds of pottery including Imari, Arita, Satsuma, Bizen, Kiyomizu, Kutani, and Yanagi. There's laquerware, cloisnne, and chokin. There's a nice collection of woodblock prints. And, you may have noticed the mounted pheasant in the top image. It came from the mountains surrounding our sister city of Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan.