Word: tatami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spartan cell is no different from that of any ordinary inmate at the Tokyo House of Detention-a 6-ft. by 9-ft. concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges...
...Kyoto, the next stop on the itinerary, classes were thrice weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...
...achieved only a modest and limited release last year. Yet his style, even at first glance, is arrestingly original. The camera seldom moves; the angle of view is virtually constant. Ozu fixes his camera at slightly above floor level, almost in a reflective posture, observing everything as if from tatami (floor mats). "It is the attitude for watching, for listening," Film Historian Donald Richie has written, "the attitude of the haiku master who sits in silence and with an almost painful accuracy observes cause and effect, reaching essence through an extreme simplification...
...single workers can rent space in Toyota's tatami dormitory for as little as $2 a month. If married, employees are eligible for company apartments, which cost between $3 and $17; commissaries sell food at a 10% discount. A worker who wants to buy his own home can borrow money from the company...
...Tatami Mates. In a study of parentally arranged marriages near Shulin, Taiwan, Stanford Anthropologist Arthur P. Wolf found two distinct patterns of premarital behavior. In the so-called major form of marriage, which the villagers considered proper, the future partners had little or no contact as children, and the bride did not enter her husband's home until the marriage actually took place. In the minor system, which was considered less proper, the girl was taken to the prospective husband's household as an infant or young child, and they were reared as brother and sister until...