Japan culture: Tatami is like art! : Young craftsmen in Gifu/Hashima
Japan culture:
When you step into an 8-tatami Japanese-style room, a dragon appears.
It is made of tatami mats.
200 tatami mats:
Approximately 200 tatami mats of different shapes and sizes are combined by changing the stitch direction.
Depending on how the light hits, shades of color are created, and the dragon appears to emerge.
Hashima City, Gifu Prefecture: Kenji Yamada (36)
This tatami mat is made by Kenji Yamada (36) in Hashima City, Gifu Prefecture.
It is the fifth generation of a long-established tatami store that has been around for more than 150 years and has just succeeded to the family business three years ago.
Order tatami mats: Miho Ohashi
I wanted to lay a strange tatami mat on the floor like a rug for a Western-style room.
looking forward to the change in color by choosing this tatami mat.
very impressed because the appearance changed depending on the light condition.
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