During my first winter in Japan, I bear in mind sitting at my kotatsu on a cushion, resting my again towards the wall and retaining heat with just the kotatsu and a small electrical space heater in my toddler room residence whereas the snow fell and the wind blew. My legs had been toasty heat under the kotatsu. My upper physique was heat the place the space heater reached it. So the place exactly did this little piece of Americana come from? Properly, the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, in fact. This design was prevalent among the various trip…