Word: tatami
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...into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow two or three ceremonial bows to an acquaintance. The Western-tailored businessman returns at night to a severely plain house of wood and paper. At the entrance he takes off his shoes, steps onto a straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning. The central room, except for mats and sliding panels and perhaps a low table, is without furniture; the eye is left free to contemplate the one picture and the single flicker of white plum blossom arranged...
...entirely at his seaside villa at Okitsu, the naming of each new Premier -he has advised at least 15 times-revolved around him. About five hours before the resignation of a Premier, Saionji would be notified. His private secretary would arrange a through telephone wire to Tokyo. In his tatami mat room the old Prince would sit apparently just listening to the waves in Kiyomi Bay. He would confer for a time with the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; then meditate some more. Finally he would pronounce a name, and the man whom he named would be the next...
...host the new Premier, Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, led the way to that chamber in his official residence where naval petty officers did Premier Inukai to death because they thought him "too pacifist" (TIME, May 23). Cinemactor Chaplin was shown the very spot on the floor from which bloodstained tatami (matting) had to be removed (see cut). He had previously lunched with young Ken Inukai, son of the murdered Premier. "As you know, Mr. Chaplin," said Son Inukai, "it was my late father's wish to receive you while Premier...