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

本研究分析了近现代早期和近代日本生活方式与社会环境的关系，旨在获得维持生活环境的知识。在此基础上，对社会环境差异最明显的城市生活和乡村生活的文献资料进行了研究，并结合爱知县的房屋、旧文献和听力研究进行了关于老家庭的田野调查。由此可以看出，近代日本人对日本生活方式的偏好超过了对西方生活方式的自发偏好，在探索适应本地区社会环境的生活方式。

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.