Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the change process in the housewife's work in Japanese modern ages, by using the magazine "Shufu-no-Tomo" in the Taisho Era The results were as follows: 1) After the Taisho middle with the rise in the reader's income standard the handicraft changed to the thing which makes home comfortable from the thing which is useful for the home economy, and emphasis began to be put on the part of the housewife that home is made comfortable by the magazine "Shufu-no-Tomo". 2) Housewives began to grapple with the handicrafts activities actively for the appeal of the magazine "Shufu-no-Tomo", too. 3) The magazine "Shufu-no-Tomo" could be thought to play an important part in the change process of the housewife work in modern Japan for the following reasons, (1) That the thing that it was given to the prize by an excellent work, (2) handicrafts were connected with the "home" ideal, (3) handicrafts were the most suitable for the housewife's leisure activities.
