A Home-Based Ethnology Tour with Bird's-Eye Illustrations
"I want to see as many different types of home as there are ways of living," we visit homes. This ethno-ethnology tour explores 16 "homes" with bird's-eye views and over 400 full-color illustrations, including a two-bedroom apartment owned by a sculptor couple who live with wax figures and a 150-year-old Kyoto-style townhouse restored by a ceramic couple!
[Table of Contents]
Prologue: Before Embarking on a Home-Based Journey: Forms Born from the Swirls of Hermit Crabs
Chapter 1: Building a Stronghold
- Lines Play Vertically, Horizontally, and Diagonally: A Triangular Miniature Garden and a World of Small Things
- A Monolith Next to a Fujizuka: A Spiral Rhythm Hidden Within
- The Aesthetics of Decadence and Imitation: So I Can Be Myself
Home Sweet Column 1: Movies and Dramas in Which the Home Plays a Main Role, Part 1
Chapter 2: Confronting Collecting
- A Couple of Sculptors Collects Haruko, the Wax Doll, and Her Fun Friends
・The Sounds Emanating from the Denon Storehouse Melt All Boundaries
・Portraits of Powerful Figures Cover the Walls: A Propaganda Collector's Home
Home Sweet Column 2: Movies and Dramas in Which the House Plays a Main Role, Part 2
Chapter 3: Inheriting and Utilizing
・A 150-Year-Old Kyoto-Style Townhouse Revived by a Couple of Potters
・Like a Never-Extinguishing Fire in the Hearth, the House of Haruko A Small Family Story Passed Down Through the Years
Home Sweet Column 3: A Guide to Facilities Where You Can Observe Residential Architecture
Chapter 4: A Stop Along the Journey
- A Nomadic Ger or Spaceship Earth? A Domed Base for Enjoying Life Lightly
- Snapshots from the Journey: A Foreign Street Corner Viewed from a Temporary Villa
- A Small Room Filled with the Sustenance of a Butterfly Dancing from Flower to Flower
Home Sweet Column 4: Books that Inspired This Book
Chapter 5: Living Together
- A Vividly Woven Thread: An Aerial Farm Where People and Nature Intersect
- In the Shade of Banana Leaves at a US Military Housing Complex: A Groove Born from a Cultural Whirlpool
- In a Small Barn by a Stream: An Epic Tale of a Guardian Reviving the Mountains and Valleys
Final Chapter: A Bird's-Eye View of the House in My Memory: A Bunkaju (Cultural Residence) from the Early Showa Period, Developed into a Labyrinth by Multiple Extensions
- The Author's Birthplace: His Grandfather's Home
Afterword
