kotatsu

And a kotatsu is a Japanese table with a heater underneath and a blanket around the edges.

I’m under ur kotatsu… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

Takeshi immediately said, That is a kotatsu – a heated table.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Out of the Frying Pan… | Station151 2010

Takeshi broke off and Captain Moriyama joined me at the kotatsu, sitting cross-legged on the cushion.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Out of the Frying Pan… | Station151 2010

Takeshi immediately said, That is a kotatsu – a heated table.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Out of the Frying Pan… | Station151 2010

It'll be nice when it's over, and we have our new sofa and kotatsu and TV all set up ...

Oh Wow... Big Jim 2009

Takeshi broke off and Captain Moriyama joined me at the kotatsu, sitting cross-legged on the cushion.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Out of the Frying Pan… | Station151 2010

It'll be nice when it's over, and we have our new sofa and kotatsu and TV all set up ...

Archive 2009-01-01 Big Jim 2009

The flat, unadorned prose and police-procedural elements of "The Devotion of Suspect X" will likely appeal to fans of American crime fiction, but much about the novel remains particular to Japan, down to the detectives 'exceedingly polite interrogation techniques and the murder weapon (the victim is strangled with an electrical cord attached to a kotatsu, a low, heated table common in Japanese households).

Fiction's Global Crime Wave 2010

After a few minutes, he nodded to himself and reached under the low kotatsu table, which was just high enough to accommodate the legs of someone seated on the tatami.

Static 2010

When it snowed here in DC a week or so ago, I was humming the Yuki ya kon kon children's song to myself, and when I got to the neko ha kotatsu de maruku naru the cat curls up on the heated coffee table I felt terribly sad.

Socks died. Ann Althouse 2009