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 ...

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 ...

A series about how people with highly specific sleeping situations fall asleep and stay asleep — and the products they use. Golde co-founders Trinity Mouzon Wofford and her husband, Issey Kobori, ...

For three generations, the Morita family has been wrapping, stitching and trimming modular blocks of woven grass, known as tatami, in Tokyo's old downtown. But now, beset by cheap knockoffs and ...

A modern luxury development on a forest-clad hilltop between Sha Tin and Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, might seem an unlikely place for a Japanese washitsu, or tatami room. Yet once inside ...