Kotatsu!!!!

[osprey_archer]

One of my friends has acquired a kotatsu, and it's probably fortunate for her that she lives an hour and a half away or I might be planning to move into her living room for the duration of the winter.

Despite this unfortunate distance, we have agreed that someday we MUST have a kotatsu party, which will of course consist of sitting around the kotatsu, drinking tea, eating pastries (she apparently owns one of those three-tiered pastry dishes? Truly, this party will be the height of elegance), and watching a Studio Ghibli movie - preferably one featuring a kotatsu, although upon reflection we were not quite sure if there is such a movie.

Thus I turn to you, dear readers! Is there a Studio Ghibli movie featuring a kotatsu? If there isn't we might just turn to one with a general atmosphere of coze (My Neighbor Totoro, or perhaps From Up on Poppy Hill?), but of course the Peak Experience would be to snuggle under the kotatsu as the characters on screen do the same.

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[potofsoup]

it's actually quite easy to make one's own kotatsu! We did it with a flat heating panel and a table from ikea :)

But anyway...no kotatsu Ghibli comes to mind, but there's Calcifer in Howl's Moving Castle, which is warm, if snarky. Otherwise, I'd recommend Ponyo or Spirited Away.

[osprey_archer]

Up above, asakiyume mentions a kotatsu in Only Yesterday! Which conveniently I own, so we'll probably watch that.

Did you attach the heating panel to the bottom of the table?

[potofsoup]

yes! We got a 1-inch square rod of wood from the hardware store and 4 short angle brackets. We sawed the wood into 2 pieces of the right length, and made a bracket thing that held the panel to the bottom of the table. I think I saw the instructions on one of the reviews for a fake kotatsu on Amazon 10 years ago...