Abstract
The reports on the functional analysis of table-wares (cups, dishes and metaltools) are rather seldom in our country. Yokoyama et al. (1959) reported the results on the tea knob and Yanase et al. (1964) examined the water pot handle from various view points of ergonomics. It is very important and is a basio problem for ergonomic study to know the actual hand size of Japanese and the extensive were carried out by Yanase et al. (1962) and Uchimura et al. (1967). The feeling test of the handle of a kitchen knife (Japanese style) was done by Suematsu et al. (1967).
On the ergonomic aspect of kitchen furnitures, Omori (1964) and Inaba et al. (1966) determined the height of kitchen work-tables as 80cm for Japanese women from metabolic test. Kurimasa et al. (1967) insists that 80cm height is rather too low for Japanese women on the basis of experiments in which they employed such light work as dish-washing, while Omori and Inaba et al. used rather heavy taskwork in thier metabolic research.
