Word: tatami
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...scene couldn't be more different at Sushi + Soul, www.sushi-soul.de. Here shoeless locals and the expats who make up Düsseldorf's expanding Japanese population - the third largest in Europe - enjoy fresh sashimi and piping-hot udon curled up on tatami mats strewn with feather cushions, while others sip sake at a candlelit bar scattered with driftwood. Per-haps most atmospheric of all these waterside eateries is Lido, www.lido1960.de, a glass cube with 360 degree views at the center of a €5.9 million footbridge spanning the harbor. Inside, Bauhaus furnishings and rust banquettes accommodate diners feasting on trattoria...
Japan was teetering on the high heels of history, poised uncertainly between East and West, tradition and modernity, the tatami and the Twist. It was the early 1960s and, after a traumatic American occupation, the country was irreversibly democratic, newly prosperous and thoroughly confused...
...Takafumi Horie would retire every evening to his palatial home in one of Tokyo's most prestigious apartment towers, where it's said that rents can exceed $50,000 a month. Now, however, Horie spends his days and nights in an unheated jail cell the size of three tatami mats. On Jan. 23, a week after investigators from the Tokyo District Court Public Prosecutor's Office raided the headquarters of Livedoor, the Internet company Horie founded a decade ago, he and three other executives were arrested on suspicion of securities fraud. The 33-year-old tycoon has since resigned...
...marvelous cinematography bring Kyoto’s Gion geisha district to life again—rickshaws race through the streets, geisha totter in on the arms of wealthy men, and townspeople bustle in and out of traditional Japanese houses, complete with rice paper walls, paneled sliding doors, and tatami mats. The actors themselves commendably recreate the essence of the Japanese geisha culture—ironic considering that the three lead roles are played by Chinese actresses. Both Zhang’s expressive abilities and the skillful editing of the film genuinely convey Sayuri’s development from clumsy apprentice...
...anyone who has sat in the famous "tatami room 1" of Hong Kong's Aqua restaurant can attest, there's nothing like a stunning view for turning a great meal into a grand one. The room, pictured right, is one of several private suites at the ?ber-chic Italian-Japanese restaurant, tel: (852) 3427 2288, that capitalize on its magnificent perch atop One Peking Road?a showy new fashion-cum-dining complex with panoramic views of the Hong Kong skyline. With its dramatic corner location, tatami room 1 may be the most spectacular of all, so book well ahead. Been...