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Monday, May 26, 2008
Tatami mats
On our walk through
Fukagawa
to see the
Edo Museum
, I looked into an open workshop to see two men sewing
tatami mats
by hand. This man was sewing a border onto the mat's hem with an enormous needle.
Old Edo, still relevant today.
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