House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930

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Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2005 - 482 ページ

A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era.

As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants' social status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society, not only did the increased diversity of commodities lead to material elaboration of dwellings, but home itself became an object of special attention, its importance emphasized in writing, invoked in politics, and articulated in architectural design. The aim of this book is to show the features of this culture of the home as it took shape in Japan.

 

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Dwelling and the Space of Modern Japan I
1
Home as a Modern Space 3 The International Discourse
9
Translated Modernity and the Mass Market 14 Reforming
16
The Housewifes Laboratory
55
Domestic Interiors and National Style
95
Landscapes of Domesticity
132
MiddleClassness and the Reform of Everyday Life
162
Consumers of the Culture Life
203
House Design and the Mass Market
263
Domestic Modernism
288
The Culture Life as Contested Space
322
Inventing Everyday Life
353
The Site of Seikatsu 353 A Domesticity Built of Goods
375
Notes
381
Bibliography
435
Index
469

Inscribing Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape
228

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Jordan Sand is Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University.

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