Abstract
At present, it is difficult to define the typical way of life in Japan, particularly the typical mode of home living, because Japanese people have been fond of westernizing and urbanizing their life styles in spite of poor housing conditions after the 2nd World War. Since Japan's rapid economic growth has brought modern household articles to relatively small traditional houses, a general confusion has resulted which has upset the order of home life. The final object of our research is to standardize the storage space and storage method in the Japanese house and thereby restore the order of home life. For the purpose, we first have conducted research on the standardization of household articles which normal dweller would possess. In this paper, ‛Part 1’ of our research, we expect to find the relationship between the conditions of the dweller and the amount of household articles in the house. Therefore, we investigated 1,066 families for 513 kinds of household articles. In the initial stage, we compared 544 families of three stages in the lifecycle, 189 families of two social classes (blue collar and white collar), and 333 families of two housing classes (those who live in a small readymade houses and those who live in a large readymade houses). As a result, we have learned much about how the conditions of the dweller affect the amount of house-hold articles. (See Fig. IV-2, Fig. IV-3 and Fig. IV-4.) In the second stage, the problem of how the various conditions of the dwellers control the household articles has almost been solved by multiple composite variable analysis. Further-more, the accumulated contribution ratios for the amount of household articles along with some conditions of the dweller are also discussed (see Fig. IV-8). In the next section, we classify household articles according to 6 types of dwellers (see Table IV-9). Then we clarify the relationship between each type of dweller and each condition of the dweller (see Fig. IV-15 — Fig. IV-18).
