1978 年 21 巻 2 号 p. 94-99
The present education on housing does not contain materials regarding space for entertaining guests, in particular. By a questionnaire given to 295 families, the author found actual conditions of how guests are entertained in their homes. The author's statements are as follows : 1) Teaching materials on housing should be arranged systematically and exclusively from elementary school to senior high school. 2) Teaching materials which bear more humanistic, social and historical relations are considered more valuable. Sach materials on housing space for entertaining guests are highly valuable as a teaching material. 3) Based on the actual conditions, the author suggests some materials on this subject. 4) The author found equations giving an area of oshi-ire (Japanese type of closet) as a function of housing.