The washitsu is the tatami-floored room at the heart of the traditional Japanese home. These spaces are increasingly a rarity in modern houses and apartments, though, due to changes in modern ...

The tatami room, better known as 和室 (washitsu, “Japanese-style room”), is a space that features tatami mats as its main flooring element. Tatami mats are made from woven straw with a rice straw core ...

According to Günter Nitschke in his book about Japanese Gardens, the washitsu emerged alongside the development of the Japanese dry landscape garden during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. During ...