Introduction: Dwelling and the Space of Modern Japan -- 1. Domesticating Domesticity -- 2. The Housewife's Laboratory -- 3. Domestic Interiors and National Style -- 4. Landscapes of Domesticity -- 5. Middle-Classness and the Reform of Everyday Life -- 6. Cosmopolitanism and Anxiety: Consumers of the Culture Life -- 7. Culture Villages: Inscribing Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape -- 8. House Design and the Mass Market -- 9. Domestic Modernism -- 10. The Culture Life as a Contested Space -- Conclusion: Inventing Everyday Life
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page -467) and index
