It was traditional Jap anese, the standard four-and-a-half tatami in size, bare and Spartan.
Then the oyabun reached over and formally presented the bowl, placing it on the tatami in front of his guest.
Mino drank once more, then settled his saucer on the tatami and looked up.
Around went the small flagons once more, maids scraping the tatami with their foreheads as they refilled the Emperor's gold- trimmed saucer.
Downstairs the kitchen had been placed on war footing, and what awaited when they entered the tatami banquet room was the tableau for a full- scale feast.
Then she scooted backward on the tatamiand again moved the bowl closer.
He inspected the flower again, then impulsively leaned forward and placed it onto the tatami in front of her.
As the last shadows played against his face, she laid the petal on the tatami and moved across him.
The squared edges of the mats fit exactly together, and as the mats are not made for the house, but the house for the mats, all tatami are exactly the same size.
A certain number of futon are laid down upon the tatami (the floor mats), and a certain number of others are used for coverings.
The use of the tatami was greatly extended after the twelfth century.
Sitting on her futon on the tatami of her living room, she would blow into the shakuhachi, that wailing instrument that was the only thing she could communicate with in a grief so tacit and incommunicable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tatami" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
