zabuton

Zabuton are found throughout Japan and enter many aspects of the culture.

Ordinarily, any place in Japan where seating is on the floor will be provided with zabuton for sitting comfort.

Gerard sat back on his zabuton and took out his cigar case.

Beneath the scroll, on the floor, were what appeared to be a zafu and zabuton.

He sat on a soft zabuton pillow in a room devoted to business, the bustle of his household about him.

Directly in front were zafu and zabuton in black.

Real zabuton sitting pillows, an innovation Isei had never seen before, beckoned to him.

She piled some flat zabuton seating pads under her head to raise her face.

The hologram pointed at the blank wall where the zafu and zabuton were placed.

The words zabuton, zafuton and futon are closely linked.

Zaisu come in many styles, and can either have a cushion built in or be used with a zabuton.

We usually sit on a special mediation cushion (zafu) and mat (zabuton).

He sat down on a zabuton and waited while Nancy spoke in Japanese to someone who was obviously a girlfriend of hers.

A person sits on the floor or on zabuton cushions with their legs under the table and the blanket draped over the lower body.

The zabuton cushions the knees and ankles.

There, sitting on a zabuton, a large flat cushion, was Doctor Gempaku himself, eating his breakfast.

People seated at a chabudai may sit on zabuton or tatami rather than on chairs.

The cushions on the living room floor - a zabuton and zafu, to be exact - are used for daily Buddhist-influenced meditation.

In rakugo, performers are not allowed to rise from their zabuton for the duration of their skit.

In Zen meditation, practitioners sit on zafu, which is typically placed on top of a zabuton.

But then he took her hand, climbed up off the zabuton, and followed her along the corridor to a plain, wood-floored anteroom.

In most cases, a cushion (zafu) or mat (zabuton) is necessary in order to achieve this balance.

The zabuton is generally used when sitting on the floor and may also be used when sitting on a chair.

The floor was covered with rice straw matting, though she kept a zabuton cushion for Frank Paulis.

In yose, notably on the long-running television show Shōten, comedians receive zabuton as a form of scoring.