ABSTRACT
Sasaki-san had been a reluctant and fairly utilitarian purchaser of furniture and electrical appliances. In addition to the two bookcases, desk, kitchen cupboard and collapsible dining table from the student days of herself and her husband, she had purchased another bookcase, another kitchen cupboard, two clothing chests, a set of bunk-beds and a dinette set with five chairs. If the latter purchase had been forced on her in order to make the DK in her second “modern” look right, the others had been necessitated by the lack of built-in storage in the dwelling and, in the case of the bunk-beds, the need for some private space for her first-born child. Other than the sewing machine in her possession since the early days of her marriage, if not longer, she had acquired a refrigerator, washing machine and television set, probably paid for in the same way she had paid for the dinette set – from a portion of her husband’s annual bonus.
