著者

宮内 [サトシ]

出版者

日本デザイン学会

雑誌

デザイン学研究 (ISSN:09108173)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1971, no.13, pp.15-24, 1971

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The products that people have manufactured, in their original intention, have two elements, One of them, that is, is the physical use value and the other is the semantic of symbolization. In this study of armour, I searched a series of the semantic of symbolization, the structure and the process In the second place, I have tried out the relativity between the use value and the symbolization. The swords, which have acted a host of life and death, have brought people to the supernatural impression on them. At first, people recognized that swords were symbolic of life. And then they regarded them as the symbolization of God who give life. In the fioal stage, swords were God itself, they concluded. From time immemorial, it is why people have substituted the imitations of the practical swords, In the second place, people took swords into consideration in its actionary elements as weapons fighting against harmfed devils, so them people considered them to be sym- bolic of the courage or righteousness. The possibility and credibility of the swords that people were dependent upon their whole life were put in the same line with their individual lives in value. Under the condition of the swords guaranteing their own creditability, the possibility of educing it were open only to the trainning in its skill of the users. This fact led the users to the spiritual intercourse, extremely close and dense. In consequence, many a well-knewn sword-makers came into existence, while the users used it as their own souls, put a deep meaning onit. The people sculptured in sword the constellation or the cloudings that they believed to keep its owner from devils. Swords were considered to give people the happiness and lonevity, without being confined merely to the original function to be a weapon. Sword, enshrined such meaning, often were dedicated to God. In case of Samurais, warriors in the fuedal periods, aii that they prayed were the luck in the war and the security of the country. The weapons necessities of Samurais dependent upon their lives, were loved to be gorgeous, only because Samurais wanted to be with a victory much more glorified, in the bloody scene. To be gorgeous and to be practical were always incompatible. Toward the end of 16 th century, Hideyoshi banned the farmers' possession of weapons Since them, these tools, whicht distinguished the beened from the permitted, became the status symbol, of cast system of men all ranks and classes. The practibility were all the more esteemed because the military tools were cruel. And at that same time, they had been made use with a deep significance. They give us good examples from the stand-point of our understanding the interrelation between human-beings and tools, and the use value of tools and the symbolization.