1. (in Japanese houses) any of a number of thick, woven straw mats of uniform dimensions, about three feet by six feet (91 cm by 183 cm), the placing of which determines the dimensions of an interior.
"Maltz, who was also living in Japan that year, in the only tatami room in the Bans' Western-style house, started to view him as 'the Pied Piper of architecture.'"
- Dana Goodyear, "Paper palaces: the architect of the dispossessed meets the one per cent", 11 & 18 The New Yorker
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