It is the intention of this paper to develop an understanding of architecture in human terms, using the architectural spaces created in Tanizaki Junichiro's The Makioka Sisters. The house described in the novel is modelled on one in which the writer actually lived, except for the engawa which is a feature of the created dwelling. In the novel, the engawa and the garden, as the poly-fold points of sight of autoscope, is understood to be intimately related to the development of caracter's self-consciousness. It is suggested, therefore, that architectural space could be investigating deeply through taking account of human terms.
