Japanese culture

Nowadays many people say that diary life about Japanese people become similar to westerner. For example, in morning man people eat bread better than rice, when we feel asleep, we always go not to futon but to bed. These are not so bad thing I think, but I want to look back Japanese old life style. This is because it has contain over 2000 years!
I introduce you to some good points about Japanese old style of life.

I think that Tatami is the most important thing in Japanese people life. This is because if your house has it , you might want to take off shoes in door room.
On flooring rooms, it is not so serious problem that the flooring has become dirty and be damaged. In Tatami room, however, if you walk on it taking shoes, it rapidly became so duty. Flooring is made of wood which is not so soft but Tatami is made of Igusa(like grass) which is very tender. So Tatami room is very soft for us to sit on.
Though you(Japanese people today)say “my house don’t have it”, I think your grand parents house have it. I think that no one has experienced it in Japan.
In fact, a survey concludes that when Japanese people sit on it, their feeling better than they are in flooring room. If you have never experienced it, you should try it once. It is very comfortable. I like it very much.

To use futon is good for Japanese people.
Nowadays many people have become use bed when you try to sleep.
Surely it has some good points. For example, mattress exist not on the floor directly so it is the benefit of not so cold in winter, when you want to sleep you don’t have to spread out the futon and you directly jump into bed then you can sleep.
However, I think there are many bad points on using bed. I introduce some good points.
You can use your room more large. This is because you only spread out it when you want to sleep and when you get up you can move it into closet.
Moreover, Japanese house approximately has one or two Tatami room.
When you use it there, Tatami became damaged rapidly, and the image of this room is too strange or bad. I recommend you to use it because futon is very comfortable. In fact I use it in my room.

I think that it is very important to Japanese culture to take off shoes in the door when you visit someone’s house. I heard that a lot of cultures, except Japan, China, Korea and so on, don’t do it.
When I was a junior high school student, I transferred to new school once.
In previous school, we took off shoes in the shoes box area, and we changed shoes from outdoor shoes to indoor shoes because it was the school rule. So we can keep our classrooms very clear. In following school, however, we didn’t take off shoes. We went into our classroom on wearing outdoor shoes. When we cleaned our classroom after school, there was a lot of dust in our classroom because we took them indoor. Most of students don’t understand why the room is dusty, I could understand why it is so dusty. To take foo shoes keep our room clean.

How do you feel about Japanese old style life?
Nowadays many people like western life: like to eat bread, like to sleep in bed.
However to eat rice and to sleep futon has some superior points I wrote.
If you have never try these things, you should try them once.
I like it very much.