{"product_id":"round-tatami-floor-cushion-igusa","title":"Round Tatami Floor Cushion 'Igusa'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRound floor cushion woven from rush in a coil, pale or dark, 30 cm\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA coil of straw to sit on. This round cushion is woven from rush in a tight spiral from the centre out, flat and firm, a few centimetres thick, in a pale natural straw or a darker one toasted brown, and it is the seat of the tea room and the temple, the mat you are given at the door. It smells faintly of hay when it is new and of nothing after a month.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the plainest seat in the collection and the most Japanese, and it is the one under the low table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Igusa, is the rush, the plant tatami is woven from, and the cushion is that plant in a circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cushion is rush straw coiled from a centre and bound through with a fine cord, so the top shows the spiral and the edge shows the rows, with a woven binding round the rim. It is firm, it does not compress, and it is light enough to carry in one hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSit on it cross-legged or kneeling at a low table, or use it as a mat for a teapot, a plant or a lamp, which is what most of them end up as. It stacks, it hangs on a nail, and it lives by the door for the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spiral is the detail: the coil runs from a tight centre to the rim in one continuous rope, and the binding cord is what holds it, visible as a fine stitch across the rows. The dark version is the same straw toasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan sits on the floor, and the cushion is the chair. On tatami or on boards it goes under a low table, in front of a window, beside a bed; in a Western room it goes on a sofa, a chair or a floor by the fire, and it is the thing a guest is handed. Every cushion in the collection is photographed on the same pale ground at the same scale, so the pages compare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it dry; brush it with a soft brush and air it in the sun once a season. Wet straw marks and goes soft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a straw disc on the floor. From close the disc shows its spiral, the rows their binding, and the rim its weave. It is the cushion for a tea table and a person who likes the material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 by 30 cm, a seat for one, a few centimetres thick. It is small by Western standards and it is meant to be: it goes under a person, not round one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"30x30cm Clear","offer_id":59207927824732,"sku":"14:29#A","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x30cm Dark","offer_id":59207927857500,"sku":"14:366#B","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/round-tatami-floor-cushion-igusa-1.jpg?v=1790586183","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/round-tatami-floor-cushion-igusa","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}