While dusting off a bookcase, I took a few minutes to look through an old photo album and got the perfect idea for today’s daily jigsaw puzzle – a traditional Japanese house!
When we lived in Japan we rented a house on the economy for about a year before we got into base housing, and while this one isn’t that house, it did have some similarities.
For starters, the floors were made from tatami mats, which are traditional flooring composed of a thick, compressed core surfaced with woven rush grass, and their use dates back over a thousand years.
If you look through the window on the right side of the picture, you can see the mats. They go from wall to wall.
The inside of the house had a traditional rice-paper style sliding door between the kitchen area and the main room downstairs, and the doors were regular style upstairs.
The house was a five-minute walk from a small Japanese grocery store, and we would walk to it a couple of times a week to get groceries. Our refrigerator was small, so we couldn’t buy and store much at a time.
The yard was small enough that I could use a weed-eater to mow it.
Anyway, that is what inspired today’s puzzle.
Enjoy!

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