Examples of tatami in the following topics:
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- One of the most noticeable changes in architecture to arise from the shoin came from the practice of lining floors with tatami mats.
- Since tatami mats have a standardized size, the floor plans for shoin rooms had to be developed around the proportions of the tatami mat; this in turn affected the proportions of doors, the height of rooms, and other aspects of the structure.
- Before the shoin popularized the practice of lining floors with tatami mats, it had been standard to only bring out a single tatami mat for the highest-ranking person in the room to sit on.
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- If I ever decide to call up the librarian I knew in 1992 at Genesee Community College in Upstate New York, I can remind myself that his older son, Tom, used to live in an apartment with six Japanese tatami mats on the floor.