A study on the increasing expectations for own house- Focusing on the NIHON DENWA TATEMONO Inc. in prewar period

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26420651
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Uchida seizo 神奈川大学, 工学部, 教授 (30277686)
• Research Collaborator: SUZAKI Fumiyo 神奈川大学, 非文字資料研究センター, 研究員 ; FUCHIKAMI Takayuki 佐賀大学, 大学院, 助教 ; SEI Naoki 神奈川大学, 工学部, 学生
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本電話建物株式会社 / 持家 / 借家 / 朗 / 住宅無尽 / 日本電建 / 住宅と電話 / 平尾善保

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to make clear the aspect of the expectations for having own house using the magazine “Hogaraka”, the business and advertising media of NIHON DENWA TATEMONO Inc. which is famous for enlarging the expectations for own house to the overall middle classes in prewar, to help to think about the state of the residence in the future. As the result, it makes clear the method of “Jutaku Mujin” mutual loan system which adopted by NIHON DENWA TATEMONO Inc. became established as the way which people could get their own house to pay the leased house’s average house rent only. Therefore, it raised the possibility that below the middle classes had the own house at a time. Also, lots of people who got their own house had dissatisfaction to leased house, but they didn’t have the obvious ideology to own house, just found the significance to have own house.

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