316 pp. volume on Japanese residential home design, illustrated. Octavo (8 x 6 inches). Original embossed publisher's boards, with original stapled cardboard slipcase with cover design mounted to front. Light wear and scuffing to boards, scattered foxing to interior, some wear and abrasions to slipcase. Tokyo: Arusu, Showa 4 (1949).

Eiji Serizawa was an architect employed in the Construction Division of the Ministry of Finance. His first and better-known work, 1924's Shin Nihon no juka [Dwellings for the New Japan], was a volume of his own designs for residential houses together with illustrations and photographs of Western interiors. In the introduction to that work, Serizawa wrote, "It goes without saying that as the level of our culture gradually becomes global (sekaiteki), our lifestyle and the style of our architecture naturally become closer to something global." ("House and Home in Modern Japan", Jordan Sand, Harvard East Asian Monographs, 223)

This volume came five years after Shin Nihon no juka, and contains designs for 32 small modernist homes, presented through illustrations of elevations, floor plans, and façades, with four full-color plates at the start of the work.

A very scarce volume; as of July 2026, OCLC only locates a single holding in a North American library and one in Japan.

Book ID: 53738

Price: $1,950.00