著者

藤原 美樹 松本 靜夫 フジワラ ミキ マツモト シズオ Miki FUJIWARA Shizuo MATSUMOTO

雑誌

福山大学工学部紀要

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.111-116, 2003-12

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The Chinese classical literature "KIN PEI BAI" is known as one of the four most valuable books in China and it is said to be written in the middle of Banreki years in the Ming period. It is a long novel consisting of 100 stories. In this paper the order maintained by the wealthy feudal family in relation to the room arrangement is examined considering the relationship between the ceremony of marriage, one of the ritual initiations clear that, and women's territory. As a result it becomes women's territory in a house divided in accordance with hierarchy such as a wife, a mistress and a maid and family hierarchy was clearly reflected in the room arrangement. Physically it was divided by a fence, a wall and a door and was secluded from society. It was clear that Confucianism and moral discipline were strict with, especially, women. For a man it was one of the important conditions to get a lawful wife with well-balanced social status Only one woman had the right to become the lawful wife and other women could be nothing but a mistress. A mistress was a kind of goods purchased by money. A marriage was a ceremony to take a wife from the outside to the inside. A bride, when she got married, went to a bridegroom's house on a closed palanquin and entered into a given territory. Women's room was closed and secluded from the outside world.