Traditional Industry and Community Life Structure a case of Nishijin district in Kyoto

西镇是京都的一个传统工业区，也是生产日本服装的最大地区之一。然而，西镇的产量一直在下降。这种情况在日语中被称为“枯竭、侵蚀”。我们的主题是研究这个地区的社会生活发生了怎样的变化，由该地区的“劳动密集型家居产业”管理的西市的纺织贸易，促进了服装生产的几项职能的工作专业化。这就是为什么他们说整个城镇就是一家工厂的原因。这一社会特征得到了延续。它既受农村工业形势的影响，也受城市工业形势的影响。然而，西镇的“久保家”，也就是人们常说的西镇社区(Nishijin-Village)。西津的一些研究人员将该地区的邻里关系描述为“女孩社区”(正式义务或义务)，但我们并不认为是这样，即使二战后，日本的人类社会发生了很大变化。诚然，纺织制品业的社会阶层分化正在进行，工人的就业非常不稳定，但根据我们的研究，西津人继续在这个地区的邻里生活中找到积极的意义。

Nishijin,a district of traditional industry in Kyoto, is one of the biggest districts producing Japanese clothes. However, production in Nishijin has been falling. This situation has been called "Kudoka"(depletion,erosion) in Japanese. Our main theme was to study how social life in this district has been changing.The textile trade in Nishijin, which is managed by the "Intensive Labor Home Industry" of the district, has been stimulating work specialization of the several functions of cloth production. This is the resaon why they say that that the whole town is a single factory. This social character has been sustained. It is influenced by the rural as well as the urban industrial situation. However, the "Kuboka" in Nishijin, which is often referred to as the Nishijin Community (Nishijin-Village). Some of the researchers of Nishijin described the neighborhood relations in thsis district as a "community of GIRI" (formal duty or obligation), but we do not consider it so, even if, human felations have changed a lot in Japan after World War II.It is true that the differentiation of the social strata of textile menufacturers has proceeded and that employment of the workers is very unstable, but, according th our research, people in Nishijin continue to find a positive meaning in neighborhood life of this district.