My Japanese Room.

Mai requested to see my room:

Here are some pictures of my room in my host family's house in Japan. They have an old style, traditional house (more pics of the house itself later). My floor is made of tatami mat. I kind of like just laying down on the tatami mat. It feels nice.

The window shades are made with rice paper over a wooden frame. They really don't prevent any light from coming in, and I swear the sun rises at 3am every morning. I once woke up at 4am and could have sworn it was 9am and was so scared because I thought I was late to school. It was hard getting used to bright sunshine for the first few weeks, and even now I still have some problems sleeping through it.

I have a scroll hanging with something to the effect of "the beautiful feeling of Spring" (of course not literally) written on it in Japanese calligraphy. In front of the scroll is a jade object. And some pink flowers. The flowers smell nice and they last for a month or so without even watering them.

I sleep on a futon. Actually 2 futons. I stacked them on top of eachother, and even though its the Summer, I sleep with 3 covers because it's pretty cold at night in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Well, I hope you enjoy the pics.