In one cell, a gray plastic tarp protects the straw "tatami" mat floor from bed-wetting. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
"tatami," or straw-mats, an inch or more in thickness, give to the room an appearance of cleanliness which usually belies the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
The troubled tatami makers are beginning to worry. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Ta-Ta To Tatami?] Reference
Surprisingly, there are no tatami rooms available. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea R. Vaucher: Along For The Ride: Miyako Hybrid Hotel] Reference
She carefully folded one of the tatami place mats. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
One company markets a tatami mouse pad on the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Ta-Ta To Tatami?] Reference
Before us, a step led up to a platform covered with tatami mats. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Now, our warehouse is the square footage of about 100 tatami mats. From Wordnik.com. [Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts] Reference
She opened the door of a small tatami room I'd never entered before. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
They carried beach chairs, rolled tatami mats, and spare bedspreads. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
Sometimes we woke up during thenight and found her sitting on tatami. From Wordnik.com. [Grandma Can't Sleep: A Taiwanese Folk Song Composed by a Big Nose] Reference
I followed him into a tatami room, feeling like a kite pulled by a string. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
There he was, emerging from a tatami room in conversation with another man. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
I and my brother slept with her on aJapanese tatami bed when we were little. From Wordnik.com. [Grandma Can't Sleep: A Taiwanese Folk Song Composed by a Big Nose] Reference
I imagined myself inside a teahouse, sliding open the door of a tatami room. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
As we were leaving the teahouse, Mameha pulled me into an empty tatami room. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
The tatami trade is trying, grudgingly, to accommodate the trendy, consumer world. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Ta-Ta To Tatami?] Reference
By some trick of the hand, her red sash slithers to the tatami, a gaudy, sleepy snake. From Wordnik.com. [Ukiyo] Reference
The floor was covered in tatami mats, and there was a small, thin futon in one corner. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
We were standing in a tiny tatami room with only one window, covered by a paper screen. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
By some trick of the hand, her red sash slithers to the tatami, a gaudy, sleepy snake. From Wordnik.com. [Ukiyo] Reference
My slippers scratched against the tatami mats that lined the floors of the small dining room. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Lou Song: America's Front Porch: Remembering Our Veterans] Reference
It wasn't a tatami, but a simple sheet of woven straw; I could feel the hard flooring beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
He worked as a short - order cook and raised his family in one tiny room covered in tatami mats. From Wordnik.com. [The Japan That Can Say Yes] Reference
Taking a cue from traditional hotels, the Hyatt offers several rooms that have tatami mat floors. From Wordnik.com. [Hakone Gets Hip] Reference
When the tea ceremony was invented, he notes, everyone wore kimonos and was used to living in tatami rooms. From Wordnik.com. [A Tea Ceremony for Today] Reference
Customers rushed to buy his tatami mats, used as flooring, to spruce up their houses before the coming year. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Ta-Ta To Tatami?] Reference
Japanese house-mats, tatami, are as neat, refined, and soft a covering for the floor as the finest Axminster carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The four-level home has loft-like spaces with paper screens and tatami mats, as well as a small pool off a living room. From Wordnik.com. [Iglesias Razes House] Reference
Ryokan typically have tatami-mat floors and strict rules, and include meals served in the bedrooms by kimono-clad women. From Wordnik.com. [Hakone Gets Hip] Reference
The tatami, beneath a tolerably fair exterior, swarm with insect life, and are receptacles of dust, organic matters, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The one-year-old Tokinoshizuku ryokan has private wooden onsen and traditional floor seating on tatami mats in each of its eight rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Hakone Gets Hip] Reference
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