Meaning of tatami | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
2. A unit of area equal to a standard-sized tatami mat, approximately 1.65 square metres.

Equivalents

Examples

“Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,”

“Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.”

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