Japanese households often consist of both
Japanese style rooms with tatami floors, and modern rooms with wooden or tiled
floors. Tatami mats are made of straw and measure roughly 180 cm x 90 cm. You
should always take off your slippers when stepping on tatami mats in order to
protect them from damage.
Traditional tatami rooms have an alcove
(tokonoma) in which a hanging scroll (kakejiku) and a flower arrangement
(ikebana) or piece of pottery is displayed. The room entrances are sliding
paper doors (fusuma) and sliding paper screens (shoji) which can be removed
completely.
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