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  2. Tatami - Wikipedia

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    Edoma (江戸間) tatami: 1.76 by 0.88 m (5 ft 9 in by 2 ft 11 in), also called Kantōma (関東間) tatami, originated from Tokyo; In terms of traditional Japanese length units, a tatami is 1 by 0.5 ken, or equivalently 6 by 3 shaku. The length of these units varies regionally, which led different regions to develop separate tatami size ...

  3. Washitsu - Wikipedia

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    This washitsu has tatami flooring and shoji (doors). A traditional washitsu. A washitsu (和室), meaning "Japanese-style room(s)", and frequently called a "tatami room" in English, is a Japanese room with traditional tatami flooring. [1] Washitsu also usually have sliding doors , rather than hinged doors between rooms.

  4. Tatami (Japanese armour) - Wikipedia

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    Tatami (畳具足), or tatami gusoku (from 畳む tatamu, "to fold", and gusoku, "full suit of armour"), [1] was a type of lightweight portable folding Japanese armour worn during the feudal era of Japan by the samurai class and their foot soldiers .

  5. Ken (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The length also appears in other contexts, such as the standard length of the bō staff in Japanese martial arts and the standard dimensions of the tatami mats. As these are used to cover the floors of most Japanese houses, floor surfaces are still commonly measured not in square meters but in "tatami" which are equivalent to half of a square ken.

  6. Customs and etiquette in Japanese dining - Wikipedia

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    However, traditional Japanese low tables and cushions, usually found on tatami floors, are also very common. Tatami mats, which are made of straw, can be easily damaged and are hard to clean, thus shoes or any type of footwear are always taken off when stepping on tatami floors.

  7. JMdict - Wikipedia

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    JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary. As of March 2023, it contains Japanese – English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.

  8. Shoin-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics of the shoin-zukuri development were the incorporation of square posts and washitsu floors, i.e. those completely covered with tatami. [1] The style takes its name from the shoin, a term that originally meant a study and a place for lectures on sutras in a temple, but which later came to mean just a drawing room or study. [2]

  9. Kikko (Japanese armour) - Wikipedia

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    Lightweight portable folding armour (kikko tatami gusoku) would have a kikko tatami dōu (folding breastplate), and auxiliary armour items such as wakibiki, manchira, and manju no wa could be armoured with kikko. Kabuto (helmets) could have a neck guard (shikoro) made with kikko plates sewn to a cloth backing.