Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:15:54 +0200, Hallvard Tangeraas <inv@lid.email>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've checked around here (in Norway), and I did find a store selling 
>>Futons, 
> 
> 
> Try Sweden instead - I bought a futon many, many years ago from Ikea,
> and it looks like they are still selling them:
> 
> http://www.ikea.no/
> 
> Up to 1600 krone for a futon, whatever that might be in yen or euros.

Yes, I've already looked at Ikea since they have stores here as well, but 
they don't seem to have "real" Japanese futon matrasses for sleeping on (on 
the floor).
What they sell seems to be a more "westernized" variation which is for 
couches, which isn't traditional Japanese of course.

This is what I found at their site under "futon":

http://www.ikea.no/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=16&langId=-14&catalogId=10101&categoryId=10162&cattype=sub

Not much of interest really.


... so, is the word "futon" a widely used term which may mean a lot of 
things? What I'm looking for are the mattrasses I slept on, on the floor, 
while I stayed in Japan, that were rolled together during the day and put in 
the cupboard shelf.

I guess this is a very Japanese sort of thing, as I haven't heard of anyone 
here (or in other western countries) sleeping on anything but regular beds. 
But I'd love to sleep the Japanese way myself.



-
Hallvard