A raised-tatami workshop that builds made-to-order unit tea rooms with built-in hearths.
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Source: hida-f.co.jp
In its workshop in Gero, Gifu, furniture makers hand-build tatami beds and raised tatami units one at a time, designed to the room in 1 cm steps. It has made many unit tea rooms for the tea ceremony.
For tea-room units the position of the hearth and the direction of the mats are set to the client's wishes, with either an electric or a charcoal hearth. Drawers sized for tea utensils and a step can be ordered, so a room with a hearth can be set up even in an apartment without a tatami room. Frames are made of materials such as laminated ash; one tea-room unit used 64-weave mats.
The company's own hinoki tatami uses Kiso and Tono hinoki from Gifu, processed into tatami cores in its own factory without adhesives or harmful substances; this tatami is Eco Mark certified and has won the Good Design Award and the Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Award. Raised units and furniture can sometimes be shipped abroad. Suited to those who want an authentic tea-making area at home with little construction.
A tatami platform for tea, a type often ordered when ready-made units ignore tea etiquette or underfloor heating rules out a floor hearth. The hearth position and mat direction follow the client's wishes, with an electric hearth built in. Urethane-finished laminated ash frame; board-core tatami with Daiken mat covers.
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A unit for a rental tea room: 430 mm high with three drawers and a frame cut for an electric hearth. The tatami use 64 weave rows rather than the usual 63, since utensil placement in tea is counted by rows, with organic covers from Yatsushiro, Kumamoto.
View on official site ↗A four-and-a-half-mat platform with a central hearth, 390 mm high, with two drawers sized for tea utensils and a step for getting up. Bordered tatami 55 mm thick.
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A large 3,240 × 2,155 mm unit with a built-in electric hearth, plus a castored storage rack with adjustable shelves. Urethane-finished laminated ash; organic Kumamoto mat covers.
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Built for a real charcoal hearth rather than the more common electric type, with hinoki tatami thicker than usual to suit. At 44 cm high it came with an optional step. Laminated ash with clear oil finish.
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Assembly-type tatami for use as a tea room and a mat to hold a hearth, in laminated ash with stained solid walnut edging. Painted samples can be sent in advance to check the colour.
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The workshop has made over 3,000 raised tatami units, for new homes or existing rooms. Quotes and drawings are free, and units ship straight from the factory.
Payment is after delivery and assembly, with a five-year guarantee; if the product differs from the drawings shown before production, returns are accepted. Mat covers include organic Yatsushiro rush and Daiken paper covers; frames come in walnut, oak, cherry, hinoki or laminated ash.
Q. How long does it last? / A. The core is good for 10 years or more as a guide, and in platforms that are rarely walked on it usually shows little wear. Covers can be flipped or replaced after about five years.
Q. How heavy is it? / A. A Kanto-size mat is about 25 kg at 55 mm thick and 20 kg at 35 mm; a 55 mm half mat is about 13 kg.
Q. Lead time? / A. 3–7 days for stocked standard sizes, otherwise 2–3 weeks. A cut sample about 15 cm square is available.
Eco Mark certification in 1998, the Good Design Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Commissioner's Award in 2000, the Forestry Agency Director-General's Award at a thinned-timber competition in 2002, and an excellence prize at the Monozukuri Nippon Grand Award in 2005. Unit tatami were sold for a limited time at Isetan Shinjuku in 2016, and since 2019 its work has been shown at the Ligna Terrace Tokyo showroom (Chuo-ku, Tokyo).
Photos: Hida Forest official website
| Business | Manufacture and sale of flooring such as tatami cores and furniture, mainly from forest resources such as thinned timber |
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