明治期の特許家具にみる日本人の生活意識

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The Patent Law in Japan was established in July 1885. Ever since that time, both city dwellers and provincial people had invented a lot of new ideas about furniture. Japanese devisers of those patent furniture were inspired by European and American one such as chairs and tables. In the materials of the industrial property, we can read both the criticism of Japanese life style sitting on the tatami mat that has been formed historically, and desire to constitute the better life space. Those should be summarized as follows: Intention to empty life space: A device folding table and desk to reduce its capacity which realizes fair ability of transportation. Intention to health: Since Japanese have been inexperienced in use of chair, they seem to have regarded it as a cause of illness. Intention to comfortable: In a chair, we can lean back and rest our arms. They tried to realize the comfortable posture on the floor. Intention to rationality: A structure for rationality on every stage-production, circulation and use. Intention to novelty: They pursued the novelty such as space-savingor prevention of wrinkle of clothes. Intention to safety and security of property.