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  2. Kawabun - Wikipedia

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    Main gate of the Kawabun The Momiji room, the only tatami room in the restaurant with a horigotatsu —sunken seating with a garden view. [1] Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu welcoming U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan at the Kawabun during the G20 summit in November 2019

  3. Customs and etiquette in Japanese dining - Wikipedia

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    When shoyu (literally, soy sauce) is served together with nigiri-sushi (sushi with a fish topping), pick up the sushi and dip the fish topping, not the rice, into the shoyu. Having the rice absorb shoyu too much would change the original taste of the nigiri-sushi, and trying to dip rice into the shoyu may cause the whole sushi to fall apart ...

  4. Tofuya Ukai - Wikipedia

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    The restaurant has 55 private rooms furnished in traditional zashiki-style with tatami mats, screens and windows with translucent paper, and leg wells under the table called horigotatsu. [ 5 ] According to architect Makoto Yamaguchi, Tofuya Ukai has Tokyo Tower as its shakkei , which means borrowed scenery or neighboring textures.

  5. Izakaya - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the izakaya, customers either sit on tatami mats and dine from low tables, as in the traditional Japanese style, or sit on chairs and dine from tables. Many izakaya offer a choice of both as well as seating by the bar. Some izakaya restaurants are also tachi-nomi style, literally translated as "drinking while standing". [13]

  6. Ryokan - Wikipedia

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    A room in the Tamatsukuri Onsen Ryokan (Arima Onsen) Ryokan interior, hallway Ryokan interior, door and stairs. A ryokan [a] is a type of traditional Japanese inn that typically features tatami-matted rooms, communal baths, and other public areas where visitors may wear nemaki and talk with the owner. [1]

  7. Washitsu - Wikipedia

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    Many new construction Japanese apartments have no washitsu at all, instead using linoleum or hardwood floors. The size of a washitsu is measured by the number of tatami mats, using the counter word jō (畳), which, depending on the area, are between 1.5 m 2 and 1.8 m 2. (See tatami.) Typical room sizes are six or eight tatami mats in a private ...

  8. Tatami - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, the size of a room is usually measured in relation to the size of tatami mats (-畳, -jō), about 1.653 m 2 (17.79 sq ft) for a standard Nagoya-size tatami. Alternatively, in terms of traditional Japanese area units , room area (and especially house floor area) is measured in terms of tsubo , where one tsubo is the area of two tatami ...

  9. Kotatsu - Wikipedia

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    This kotatsu came about with the popular use of tatami matting in Japanese homes. Instead of placing the charcoals in the irori, they were placed in an earthen pot which was placed on the tatami making the kotatsu transportable. [2] This more modern style kotatsu is known as the oki-gotatsu.