Raku Tatami Mat

The Raku Tatami Mat is designed for the Raku Tatami Platform Bed to provide a traditional Japanese surface for your shiki or futon mattress. These are the same Tatami mats as the Kaiteki Floor Mats except they are sized to fit standard Western mattress footprints. The Raku Tatami Mat is a Japanese Grass Straw Tatami mat upon which you rest your futon or Shiki. Tatami mats have been used for centuries in Japan as a floor covering or bed surface.  Our Tatami mats have been designed and manufactured for modern use and are constructed of 4 layers of natural grass straw, topped with a high-grade, tightly woven rush straw, sewn to the base layers. The Tatami mats can serve as a replacement for box springs or foundations to provide even support for your thinner and more malleable futons or shiki mats. Additionally, their construction allows air to percolate up through the mats, into the mattress, and throughout the sleeping environment reducing molds and allergens and keeping the sleeping are