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House and home in modern Japan : reforming everyday life 1880-1930 / Jordan Sand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sand, Jordan, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 223.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 223
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Japan.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 482 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2003]
- Summary:
- A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artefact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house as site and as artefact and explores the spaces, commodities and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era.
- Contents:
- Dwelling and the space of modern Japan
- Domesticating domesticity
- The housewife's laboratory
- Domestic interiors and national style
- Landscapes of domesticity
- Middle-classness and the reform of everyday life
- Cosmopolitanism and anxiety : consumers of the culture life
- Culture villages : inscribing cosmopolitanism in the landscape
- House design and the mass market
- Domestic modernism
- The culture life as contested space
- Inventing everyday life.
- Notes:
- Published in association with Harvard University Asia Center.
- Originally published: 2003.5
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781684173846
- 1684173841
- OCLC:
- 298104953
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684173846 DOI
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