Abstract
In recent years, Japanese children have come to have rooms available for their exclusive use at home almost to the extent that their counterparts in other advanced countries have. Traditionally, Japanese did not give private rooms to their children, and it was in the Taisho era that the idea of nurseries first entered Japanese experience. What mainly interests me is the question as to how housing which gave pride of place to children came into being in Japan.
This paper is designed to shed light on how this came about by examining W. M. Vories' theory of housing.
