Tatami mats are a unique aspect of Japanese culture. Made of woven straw, filled with a soft material (traditionally rice straw, but nowadays foam), and bordered with beautifully-patterned cloth, ...

On a crisp winter’s day, Toshiyuki Namigai, who runs a tatami business in Tokyo, spreads out sheets of woven materials of varying thickness as he speaks with a regular customer — Anton Wormann, a ...

KYOTO--Remarkable tatami mat mosaics are on display at the city's Komyoin temple. These tatami are not like the mats found in Japanese homes. They are more like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. One of the ...

Zulkarnain Bin Hasan Basri prays on an "inori" tatami prayer mat in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward on Oct. 30, 2023. (Mainichi/Aya Kimura) OSAKA -- A Kyoto-based tatami mat trading company has launched a ...

, including traditional festivals and paper-making. Festivals from the prefectures of Ibaraki, Niigata, Shiga and Toyama, as well as two types of craftsmanship related to handmade paper and tatami mat ...

Japanese online retailer Felissimo has been transforming the way we decorate our homes over the years, giving us everything from cute kitten hand towels to feline screen door patches and mops shaped ...