Natural Grass TATAMI
In the Japanese home, TATAMI mats are used as a surface for sitting, sleeping and wallking on. The mats are composed of a thick rice core, a soft reed and two borders of cloth or synthetic tape which protects the sides. Nowadays, we can lay down the Tatami or build a wooden platform to cover the whole room so that family members can sit, to eat, talk, study, play games or watch television.
Tatami is the soft creak and caress of a field of grass at your feet and the sweet smell of straw in the morning. It is like carpeting your living room with an early autumn evening.
Quoted by John Herrick in Discover Japan
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