Comparative research between cities and farm villages from the viewpoint of life styles and social environments in early modern and modern Japan

本研究分析了日本近现代生活方式与社会环境的相关性，以期对生活环境的维护有一定的指导意义。然后对社会环境差异最明显的城市生活和农村生活的文献资料进行了研究，并结合爱知县的房屋、古籍、听证等方面的研究，进行了关于老家庭的田野调查。结果显示，在现代日本，人们自发地更喜欢日本人的生活方式，而不是西方的生活方式，探索与该地区社会环境相适应的生活方式。

This research analyzed correlation between the lifestyle and social environment in the early modern and modern Japan, and aimed at getting the knowledge to lead to the maintenance of the living environment. Then we researched the literature material about city life and rural life that indicated differences most explicitly in social environment, and made the field-work about old family combining together the research of house, old document and hearing in Aichi prefecture. As a result, it was revealed that people preferred Japanese lifestyle to Western lifestyle of one's own accord in modern Japan, groping for the lifestyle adapted to the region's social environment.