Name: Kotatsu: A Japanese Family Tradition | Life in Japan Episode 182
Uploaded: 2022-09-29T18:55:08.000Z
Duration: 11 min 27 s

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We've never had a kotatsu table and I've always wanted one.

過去形

未来形

It's going to be in our tatami room and we're going to let the kids do homework on it and play on it and stuff so...

畳の部屋で 宿題や遊ぶ時に使います

Here's to foreigners trying to buy their first Kotatsu table.

So a Katatsu table, for all my foreign relatives and friends,

正座して使うので 低めの高さです

It's a table low to the ground—actually they have tall ones too, but most of them are low

ヒーターが付いていて 布団をかぶせて使います

It's got a heater underneath it and then you cover it with blankets

Ah! You go under there and the heaters on...

And pretty much you just hibernate all winter.

So there's a controller to control how much heat you have

これがヒーターです 冬が楽しみになります

And then the heater underneath which keeps everything nice and warm.

This will be really fun to try this winter.

グレーというか ブルーグレーだね

Oh that one's so... oh! I like the grey with it.

With the grey or is it blue? It's kind of blueish gray, huh?

And now for the rug that will go under it all.

I think we figured out what size we want.

ミニバンは 荷物を沢山積めるので便利です

This is the nice thing about having a van — is to be able to load up the purchases and take them on back.

Sarah's going to scooter those purchases on over

引越しと転校が 一区切りしましたが

We just moved into this apartment, and the kids entered into new schools.

良かったことは 部屋が一つ増えたことです

but one of the benefits to our move is the extra room we picked up in the process

— a traditional Japanese tatami room, perfect for a Kotatsu table.

I wonder if I should put my rug down first.

日本の友達から こたつは一度入ったら出れないと聞いています

子供が気に入るといいです 放課後のサプライズです

So many of our Japanese friends warned us about Kotatsu, saying once you get one, you will never want to get out of it.

ベッカとアナは今日から新しい中学校なので 迎えに行くかもしれません

We think the kids will love it and will make for the perfect surprise when they get home from school today.

It's Becca & Anna's first day at their new junior-high school, so they might need an extra pick-me-up for when they get home.

ヨシコの家のコタツが 気持ち良くて

How long has it been that you've wanted a Kotatsu table? A long time...

前の家には スペースが無かったけど

My friend Yoshiko offered me one and I almost took it

But it just would not have fit in our house.

But now that we have a 4LDK and we have space,

Instructions because I have no clue what I'm doing.

Oh, here's the heater part so this is the bottom.

We're going to need some tools. Let me get a screwdriver.

Hard to think of using a heater on a day like today, but soon enough.

電源コード・脚ボルト・六角レンチを出す

I wonder if that says point in or point out.

Man, they could use some English instructions.

Take the power cord, leg bolts and hexagon wrench from the packing box.

ネジ穴をテーブルの内側に合わせる

中板のネジ穴を脚のネジ穴に合わせる

Align the leg screw holes with the inside of the table.

Align the screw holes in the middle plate with the screw holes on the legs.

Insert the leg mounting bolts from the top

No, it's one of those IKEA-looking things.

僕は "ガールフレンド" を助けました

Ok, so we lifted the table onto the two legs,

妻でありシェフであり 掃除のプロ

洗濯に宿題の先生 何でもこなすプロよ

I'm the wife, I'm the chef, I'm the cleaner...

I'm the washer... I'm the homework maker/keeper/teacher

ニトリの製品は イケアより組立てが簡単

That was a special gift from someone in Brazil.

ルースに撮影をお願いしました

Usually Nitori products are much easier to put together than IKEA.

たまには僕が手伝う光景も記録します

同時に作業していると撮れません

もし家を買ったら ルースのクラフト部屋を作りたいです

Yes, I asked Ruth to videotape — videotape?! What year is this?

To record me doing this so you can see that I do help too.

サラは一緒に作りたいだろうね

When it's a two-person job usually then it just doesn't get recorded.

But it is Ruth who, if she could have her dream house, I think there would be a wood-working shop in it.

この上に毛布をしいて 天板で挟みます

ヒーターをつけると 暖かくなります

Sarah would work with you in it, I'm sure.

So the top piece of wood sits on top of this with the blanket sandwiched in-between it.

And then a heater cranking, and you're sitting on a nice warm rug underneath!

I think you did yours way tighter than I did mine.

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