The tatami, beneath a tolerably fair exterior, swarm with insect life, and are receptacles of dust, organic matters, etc.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The street is long and narrow, with streams in stone channels on either side; but these had overflowed, and men, women, and children were constructing square dams to keep the water, which had already reached the doma, from rising over the tatami.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Mamma sat tatami, on her heels, but I basely took a chair.
"Letters from China and Japan"
John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey