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Originally Posted by Riley.
Isn't that called a Tatami?
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Separate things. Tatami mats are the straw floor mats that is traditional floor covering in Japan. You'd put down the shikfuton mattresses, 3" cotton foldable/rollable mattresses, down on top of the tatami mat. Traditional Japanese homes weren't large so they tended to be reconfigurable. When it was time to go to sleep, you shoved the dining/coffee table out of the way to a corner and brought out the futons and slept on them. During the day they were rolled up and put away and the space was used as living/dining room and put the dining coffee table back in the middle of the room.
As far as sleeping on them, it's a 3" cotton mattress basically. There's a few (very few) Western companies that still do cotton mattresses. Generally they're 6" which would in comparison to typical spring or foam mattress fall into the firm to very firm end of the spectrum. They have some 5" Japanese cotton mattress that are foldable in thirds, but that means you have two places with no material that they fold at.
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