Word: tatami
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good to our spines," insisted Mary. Willard looked inscrutable...
...pebble makes ripples in a pond. And for earnest moviegoers, Ozu's refined camera technique is a revelation in itself, for he avoids the customary fades and dissolves, shoots every scene from a few feet above the floor, the approximate viewpoint of a neighbor kneeling on a tatami mat. It is an amiable posture, altogether appropriate for one of the world's most contemplative film poets...
...seems to be in remarkable health. Recent visitors to his presidential office-fully 20 tatami mats (360 sq. ft.) in area, as one Japanese describes it, and topped by a huge, sonorous fan-have found Ho ruddy-cheeked and cheerful. For a Communist boss, he has a lively sense of humor: once when Chou En-lai spoke in Hanoi, Ho sat on the stage beside the speaker, subtly aping Chou's every gesture and facial twitch, much to the audience's amusement-and Chou's puzzlement. As a carryover from his days of flight and subversion...
HOUSE OF JAPAN. Fairgoers can dine in traditional Japanese fashion - shoeless, seated on tatami mats - or at regular tables and chairs. The food, in any case, is tempura and sukiyaki, cooked on the table. A stage show stars some of Japan's best dancers. In the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen, they are adept at everything from kabuki to the twist...
Different Faces. The Far East has nearly as many different faces as it has gods. Some tourists try to capture its flavor by slipping into Japanese kimonos and sleeping on the tatami floors of Kyoto inns, where Kannon, the goddess of mercy, dreams among the maple trees. They go as pilgrims to the Great Buddha of Nakamura or, if they get as far as Southeast Asia, stand in awed silence at Angkor, whose 40 square miles of ruins in the Cambodian jungle are about all that remain of the ancient 8th to 11th century Khmer civilization...