East
meets West,
the first annual Spring Ahead Festival at the Des Moines Botanical
Center, was
held February 7-10, 2008. The Iowa Bonsai Association provided tokonoma exhibits and some of the programs for
this event. Reaction to the tokonoma was very positive, and
included the comments:
"almost spiritual," "meditative." Above is a photo of
the East meets
West tokonoma.