Canadian Gardening: Trip to Japan, 1 by ViolaAnn

ViolaAnn wrote:
Tea and dinner were served in our room and our friends joined us for a traditional Japanese meal. Individual burners cooked part of the dinner. After dinner, the tables were cleared away and futons were laid out on the tatami mats for sleeping. The pillows were hard and heavy. Not the traditional buckwheat, but some sort of cylindrical filler. Might have been a heavy plastic, but the sound of it made me think of aluminum. The duvets were much too warm for the night; so in the middle of the night I removed it from its cover which was warm enough on its own and in a moment of brilliance, I folded up the down duvet for a pillow and slept blissfully from then on.