I have a few students who can no longer sit seiza on tatami. Some of them are sad because there are only a few table style temae you can do. And there is no difference in the seasons for table style. So I had a plan for them.
In Portland, we have been rather snowed in for the last three days. That means that Mr. Sweetpersimmon has been in the shop and I have been at the sewing machine. Look what we completed this week. I asked my husband to build me a tatami table so that my students who cannot kneel can sit and make tea on stools. From photos and diagrams he designed and built not only a tatami table, but a table that can fit a sunken ro. He also designed the two tables to be portable. They fold up into two boxes. Not only that, he made the right hand table so that it can be changed out for the furo season. This means that we can do any temae on this table. Which is good, because he will soon close the tea room for phase 2 of the renovations, and we can still have class on the tatami table.
Portable elevated tatami with sunken ro
