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Jacques Berque, « L'écosymbole du tatami », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10.3406/homso.1992.2635
Augustin Berque, Tatami as Ecosymbol The tatami, which characterizes Japanese habitation, is an element of culture that valorizes nature and the unity of the senses. It is expressive, thusly, of a uniquely Japanese cultural matrix where the social and spatial, postures and things, and the corporeal and the spiritual are intimately intertwined. In particular, this structural dynamic achieves a veritable "moral geometry" in the tea ceremony.