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Tatami would have appeared 1300 years ago in Japan at the Emperor Shoumu's Court who used the tatami as a bed under the era Nara (710-794). At the era Heian (794-1192), the use of the tatami is regulated : according to your social status, one does not use the same type of tatami, the thickness of the tatami, the colour and the motifs on its sides are different. For example, the Emperor tatami's sides are manufactures with best silks. Initially used as a bed then out of groundsheet, the use of the tatami spreads for the Muromachi period (1333-1573) at the higher class of the merchants and samurais.
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| In the beginning, the tatami is a luxury product for the easy class. One time, when the majority of people had ground with mud, the tatami also very quickly will be associated at the tea ceremony and other Japanese religious rites. It is towards 1500 that the igusa culture in the Yatsushiro's domain is developed on a large scale. It is said that at the beginnings of the igusa culture, this one was encouraged by the Lord Yatsushiro who led the rief at the time. Towards the first half of the Edo era (1730), the tatami is sprend among popular levels.
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| Under the Meiji era (1867-1911), the farmers start to use it, the nineteenth century sees the use of the tatami spreading in the Japanese home.
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| Today, the tatami remains the measuring unit of the Japanese houses and for many constructions.
To note down that even if the houses Occidentalized, they still often keep a room in tatami.
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