Abstract
This paper deals with the housewives in the new middle class of the latter Taisho Era with a view to clarifying relations between the education consciousness toward their children and their living behavior. For this purpose, the women's magazine' Shufu-no-Tomo'of the time was analyzed. It became clear that housewives' educational concern was directed to discipline, influence of the living environment, study at school, school expenses, and children's will to study. The concern for discipline and environmental influence promoted their active child care while the concern for environmental influence, study at school, school expenses, and children's will to study promoted the housewives' active household work. It may be concluded that the housewives found educational meaning not only in child care but also in household work, eventually forming a pattern of their living behavior that the keener were they on children's education, the more active they became in household work.
