{"id":2650,"date":"2021-10-24T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:32:43","slug":"western-style-furniture-wave-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/bibliography\/western-style-furniture-wave-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Western-style furniture wave in Japan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teasley, Sarah. \u201cFurnishing the Modern Metropolitan: Moriya Nobuo\u2019s Designs for Domestic Interiors\u201d.\u00a0 Design Issues, Autumn, 2003, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 57-71. The MIT Press.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1512092\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1512092<\/a>. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This reading illustrates how and why the Japanese abandoned traditional interior furniture and transformed it into a western style. Teasley uses the example of Moriya Nobuo, who was a furniture designer and interior decorator, to state his perspectives. He discusses how the rapid development of Japan\u2019s economy affects the revolution of furniture. He also talks about the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 that changed Japan\u2019s furniture style tremendously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Euro-American powers after the Meiji Restoration, reordering architecture and furniture. \u201cWestern\u201d style was of modernity, whereas \u201cJapanese\u201d style was associated with old vernacular fashion. Under this context, Japan\u2019s governments rebuilt churches, schools, libraries, and other public buildings with a more civilized face. Westernized furniture is acknowledged by more people. However, after the First World War, most people lived in rental accommodations that rooms were small and multi-functioned. Tenants can\u2019t redecorate the house. Moreover, the high price of western furniture precluded purchases for most consumers. The western-style furniture wave was not popular around the 1910s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the economic growth, the middle-class aroused. They sought higher living standards and became the main target of western furniture customers. Meanwhile, the Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed a tremendous number of houses. Moriya said, \u201cthis was not only \u201creconstruction,\u201d but also a chance to be \u201call the more progressive in the sense of a revolution and improvement in all things\u201d (Teasley, 7). The government moved residences to the countryside with larger houses. Western furniture got a chance since it required larger living spaces. Moriya\u2019s exhibitions showed the beauty, practicality, and philosophy of furniture. Moreover, he paid attention to streamlining production, which made furniture more affordable and increased its quality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairs are an essential part of western furniture, and it has political meaning to Moriya. He deemed that chairs meant democracy for Japan, and rational chair-style life was the right of all Japanese. From the article, furniture is more than art aesthetic and practicality; it represents Japan&#8217;s democracy, economic development, living-standard, education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teasley, Sarah. \u201cFurnishing the Modern Metropolitan: Moriya Nobuo\u2019s Designs for Domestic Interiors\u201d.\u00a0 Design Issues, Autumn, 2003, Vol. 19, No. 4&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography","wpcat-38-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}