Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine and show through a case study of the Kyoto folding fan industry that the basis for sustaining old industry conveying old handicraft techniques until today can be found in the artisan-merchant co-existence community. First my approach is as follows. The artisan-merchant co-existence community may be viewed as a social grouping which has been formed by the fact that both parties have a common objective, and hence interact and form social bonds. The common objective is the reproduction of the craft and the industry itself. Secondly I examine through a concrete case study the actual roles of the artisan and merchant shops as well as their respective cognitive frameworks and value systems. The analysis is being brought forward by introducing the concept of occupational lineages. This concept refers to various personal relations like consciousness of common trade and industry, and emerge f rom the fact that the actors are knit together through the relations of their craft. Basically the artisan and merchant shops dif fer in their principles and value systems, but through the occupational lineages they become knit together and form the artisan-merchants co-existence community. Within this process of interaction between artisans and merchants the point of compromise is the craft itself . The occupational lineages inherit and realize the craft, and then concretely display and utilize the craft. By carrying on the craft like this the occupational lineages function towards the construction of the artisan-merchant co-existence community and support its reprodrrction. Finally I recogneize thet the artisan-merchant co-existence community characterized by symbiotic and network-type relations through the occupational lineages.
