Main entry:

Sand, Jordan, 1960-

Title & Author:

House and home in modern Japan : architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1930 / Jordan Sand.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.

Description:

xvii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 223

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-467) and index.
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.
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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."--Jacket.

Resources:
ACLS Humanities E-Book

ISBN:

0674012186 (alk. paper)
9780674012189 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Japan.
Architecture, Domestic.
Manners and customs.
Alltag
Architektur
Haus
Geschichte 1880-1930.
Japan Social life and customs 1868-1912.
Japan Social life and customs 1912-1945.
Japon Mœurs et coutumes 1868-1912.
Japon Mœurs et coutumes 1912-1945.
Japan.
Japan Civilization.

Added entries:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 223.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238708
Call No.: BIB 168583
Status: Available