tatami
/təˈtɑmi/
noun
- A traditional Japanese floor mat made of rice straw and covered with woven rush, used as flooring in homes and dojos.
- In Japan, you should remove your shoes before stepping on tatami.
- The dojo had a large tatami floor for martial arts practice.
- The room was covered with fresh tatami mats.
- A unit of area in Japan, roughly 1.65 square meters, based on the size of one tatami mat.
- A standard Japanese room is often four and a half tatami.
- The apartment was six tatami in size.
- They measured the room in tatami rather than square feet.