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Jordan Sand is Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University.
In this elegantly written study, Jordan Sand traces the ‘public
construction of a private sphere’ by ‘people who embraced and were
served by the idea of middle-classness’ in Japan from the 1880s to
the 1920s… The reader comes away impressed by the depth, scope, and
carefully considered arguments of this book. House and Home is
essential reading for scholars of Japan as well as for those
interested in the multiple constructions of domesticity across the
globe. Sand has given readers many rooms to explore and many ideas
on which to dwell.
*Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies*
In this compelling study of ‘house and home,’ which works from the
basic premise that societies commonly project their values into
space and architecture, Jordan Sand treats the Japanese house ‘as
site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and
conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era’…
Sand’s knowledge of the new ‘forms of everyday life’ that impacted
people’s lives, together with his command of the subtle changes in
Japan’s domestic material culture that these new designs
engendered, lend his account credibility. Equally important,
however, he craftily deploys over one hundred evocative
illustrations that together enable us not merely to appreciate the
impact the new designs, but literally to envision their
significance.
*Journal of Japanese Studies*
Modernization happened in Japan quickly and vividly; but,
interfaced with Westernization and the rising consciousness of
national identity, it also redefined tradition and reappropriated
it, and thus evolved an especially intricate history of
domesticity, the central theme of this superb book… The book is
staggeringly erudite but also refreshingly literate. Sand mastered
a vast bibliography in Japanese and made full use of women’s
magazines from the period, but his organization of the complex
material into well-focused chapters is ingeniously clear. Essential
for scholars on Japan but also highly recommended for all
historians and sociologists interested in modernism, domesticity,
urban culture, and architecture.
*Choice*
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