Book DescriptionA 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.
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.
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.
"Jordan Sand"s meticulously researched and copiously illustrated study challenges conventional notions of the capitalist, industrial and Protestant foundations of domesticity. Examining transformations of the modern Japanese home between the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he reveals the power of new ideas about family, design, taste, and the usesof space … Sand shows how architects, officials, and consumers shaped bourgeois sensibilities, producing a cosmopolitan modernity that was distinctly Japanese." —Text of the Fairbank Prize citation "The book is staggeringly erudite but also refreshingly literate … Essential for scholars on Japan but also highly recommended for all historians and sociologists interested in modernism, domesticity, urban culture, and architecture." —T. K. Kitao, Choice "This is a superb book, and Sand brings together architectural, urban, gender, family, and political history in uncommonly creative ways." —Sheldon Garon, Princeton University Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге House and Home in Modern Japan : Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Jordan Sand)