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2. Tatami - Wikipedia

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   A half mat is called a hanjō (半畳), and a mat of three-quarter length is called a daimedatami (大目畳 or 台目畳), which is used in tea-ceremony rooms . [4] 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

3. Tameshigiri - Wikipedia

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   Some substances were wara (藁; rice straw), goza (茣蓙; woven rush mats) or tatami-omote (畳表; the top layer of tatami mats), bamboo, and thin steel sheets. [ 2 ] In addition, there was a wide variety of cuts used on cadavers and occasionally convicted criminals , [ 3 ] from tabi-gata (ankle cut) to O-kesa (diagonal cut from shoulder to ...

4. Gion - Wikipedia

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   Spectators from Japan and worldwide attend the events, which range from "cheap" seats on tatami mats on the floor, to reserved seats with a small tea ceremony beforehand. Gion Higashi holds a similar dance in early November, around autumn leaves, known as Gion Odori; this is more recent and has fewer performances.

5. Reed mat (craft) - Wikipedia

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   In Japan, a traditional reed mat is the tatami (畳). Tatami are covered with a weft-faced weave of soft rush (藺草, igusa) (common rush), on a warp of hemp or weaker cotton. There are four warps per weft shed, two at each end (or sometimes two per shed, one at each end, to cut costs).

6. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, advertisements quote the sizes of the rooms—most importantly, the living room—with measurements in tatami mats (jō (畳) in Japanese), traditional mats woven from rice straw that are standard sizes: 176 by 88 cm (69 by 35 in) in the Tokyo region and 191 cm by 95.5 cm in western Japan. "2DK; one six-tatami Japanese-style room ...

7. Wabi-cha - Wikipedia

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   At the core of Rikyū's aesthetic was the tea room smaller than 4.5 tatami mats. Rikyū sought to mold chanoyu into a spiritual path. His radical simplification of the tea-room interior, his reduction of space to the bare minimum needed for "a sitting", was the most practical way of focusing tea practice on the communion of host and guests.