This research attempted to make clear the introduction of the Ritsudo-Shiki (standing work style) from Meiji to early Showa period, and to examine the height of the worktop of cooking equipment in the home kitchen, analyzing various descriptions about kitchen in the authorized textbooks on domestic science for girls' high school. As the results, the introduction of the Ritsudo-Shiki was firstly shown from 1909, describing without precise purpose. In 1924, the efficiency for the Ritsudo-Shiki was shown, and took form gradually related to form. The height of the worktop was examined with a concept of the efficiency through early Showa period.
