House and Home in Modern Japan
Subtitle: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: March 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780674012189
Subjects: Asian studies; Houses, apartments, flats, etc; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; Sociology; Asia - Japan; General; Social History; History / Japan; 1868-1912; 1912-1945; Architecture, Domestic; Japan; Social life and customs
Description: "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.