著者
清水 美知子
出版者
関西国際大学
雑誌
研究紀要 (ISSN:13455311)
巻号頁・発行日
no.16, pp.61-73, 2015-03-31

This paper examines the home life of an urban middle-class household at the end of the Meiji Period as seen in Natsume Soseki’s full-length novel The Gate (1910). The character Sosuke, who resides in a three-person household with his wife and a gejo (maidservant) in a humble rented house nearly 20 minutes on foot from the final station of a rail line, lives in straitened circumstances. Despite his gloomy thoughts on a rainy day with a hole in the sole of his shoe, he cannot afford to buy new shoes.But why does this household, which is not particularly wealthy, have a live-in maidservant? This was because housework in a middle-class household at the end of theMeiji Period took so much time and effort that a full-time housewife could not complete the task herself. Gas lamps were the source of light, and meals were cooked using a shichirin, a small charcoal stove of clay or earthenware. The novel The Gate answers our question persuasively by depicting household articles and the living space in detail.

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前田愛は,通勤経路を考えると宗助が住む「山の手の奥」とは,江戸川橋の終点から徒歩20分の距離に入る早稲田界隈だと推定している。 10)1907(明治40)年秋から早稲田南町に住むことになった漱石も,この江戸川橋−飯田橋−九段下経由の路線をひんぱんに利用していたという。 https://kuins.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=4 ...

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