著者

阪東 峻一

出版者

学校法人 関東学園大学

雑誌

関東学園大学経済学紀要 (ISSN:21878498)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, pp.43, 2023 (Released:2023-03-31)

参考文献数

35

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It is widely known that during the interwar period in Japan, consumption society was formed, and travel and hiking became popular for leisure. This paper focuses on the activities of intra-company clubs in Tokyo to clarify the actual activities and their motivations to reveal the consumption society in the interwar period. An analysis of the 1930s activity records of Chiyoda life insurance company athletic association’s mountain club, reveals that the club members paid their own expenses for their activities. This included day trips and overnight trips on weekends, and extended expeditions during summer and new year holidays. Most of the activities were similar to hiking, with most of the members climbing medium to low mountains in the suburbs Tokyo. Most of the club members were men, but some women also participated. The means of transportation was public transportation such as trains and buses. Railroad lines that opened during the interwar period often passed through mountainous areas and made hikers easily accessible to the mountains. Furthermore, the motivation for the activities showed that the club members liked to participate on their own and enjoyed hiking in their leisure time. Travel and hiking, which were popular in the interwar period, were actively practiced as leisure activities of the new middle class of office workers, which this paper founds to be the bearers of a consumption society.