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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