futon

The Japanese bed is the floor, with a wooden box under the neck for a pillow and a futon for a covering. To the foreigner the Japanese landlord allows five or six futons, or cotton-wadded comforters, and they make a tolerable mattress, although not springy, and rather apt to be damp and musty.

I was 18 years old, sleeping on a futon, cooking on a George Foreman grill and showering at a friend's house every few days.