What is tatami?

Tatami mats are mostly woven of rushes of grass and are laid on the floor all year round for a person to sit or to lie on. Different countries have the same name - tatami, which is the result of mutual introduction. Tatami is mainly a wooden structure. The image is a little descriptive. As a whole, it is like a "horizontal" cabinet with a door, so there are many combinations in the selection. However, since most of the tatami mats of the average family are designed to be on the floor of a room, study or hall, they must be frequently loaded. Therefore, the choice of materials is still particular.

Tatami specifications

The traditional size of a tatami bed is 90 centimeters wide, 180 centimeters long, 5 centimeters thick, 1.62 square meters in area, and half a tatami room measuring 90 centimeters by 90 centimeters. Because the size of the tatami mat is fixed, the size of the room in the traditional Japanese building is an integral multiple of 90 cm. It is worth mentioning that the tatami in Kyoto and Kansai regions are slightly larger than those in Tokyo and Kanto. The size of tatami in Tokyo is 85 centimeters by 180 centimeters and the area is 1.53 square meters. Both as a guest, lounge, and rooms, and the overhead platform is still a large storage place in the home, you can absorb all kinds of debris into the "ground", leaving a streamlined home.

The advantages and disadvantages of tatami

Tatami advantages:

1, economical and practical, multi-functional

Tatami has many functions such as bed, carpet, stool chair or sofa. It is estimated that rooms of the same size, if they are European-style, cost 3-4 times more than a tatami. The second point is that tatami can effectively use space and save the space for beds, sofas, and chairs. Finally, sitting on a tatami for a long time is good for your health. The soft sofa will relax the legs, buttock and waist muscles, and there will be no fear of muscle relaxation when sitting on tatami mats, and the grassy smell from tatami is refreshing.

2, healthy and comfortable

Tatami is a kind of household item. People walk barefoot on top of it. They are flat and not slippery, they are not cold at the foot of the winter, and they are not hot under the feet of the summer. They are clean and comfortable. Its moderate soft and hard texture has a role in promoting the growth of children's bones; it is also beneficial to the recovery of the relatively fragile body of the elderly. At the same time, it also has the advantage of being flexible. It can be used as a mattress or even be used as a bed. The conditional room has a platform and a tatami mat on it, which can be used as a bedroom or a tea room or other leisure room. The modern tatami platform generally has a lifting table in the middle. After it rises, it can be used for tea, chat, mahjong, and entertainment. After it is lowered, it can be used as a bed. In addition, the platforms are hollow and have a strong storage function.

The shortcomings of tatami:

1、The tatami platform is poor in breathability

Stores often need to be opened for ventilation. In addition, weeding needs frequent scrubbing and care, and it also requires regular ventilation to prevent moldy growth. Special reminder, tatami platform is not good ventilation, the choice of the plate environmental protection must be very good, otherwise it is a source of pollution.

2, the quality of uneven

In addition, tatami production mainly by two ways, the market has a professional custom tatami, good quality and beautiful workmanship, but the price is not cheap, generally a square platform needs about 2000. The other is to let the woodworking production, buy their own plates, relatively limited to the level of carpentry, the general effect is not a good professional custom, but the price is relatively cheap.

What should I pay attention to when using tatami?

First, decorate tatami to choose the right location.

Tatami only requires four or five square meters of space, but it is best not to put the whole room on the city tatami. Chinese people in Japan have different living habits, so we do not recommend that you put a tatami on the entire room. During the rainy season of the year, the air is wet. If the entire room is paved with tatami mats, cleaning and moisture-proof work will be very tedious.

Third, clean tatami.

The quality and quality of tatami are selected, and the high-quality tatami mats are woven from grasses. This tatami mat is exposed once every six months to prevent the tatami from becoming moldy, spoiled, and bored. There is still a tatami mat made of artificial fabric that is more popular with small-sized homeowners. The room where the tatami room is located requires good ventilation.