A STUDY ON THE DWELLING CULTURE OF TAKING OFF OUTDOOR FOOTWEAR THROUGH CHANGING OF SEATING STYLE OF UYGHURS IN JAPAN

<p> This research mainly purpose on Uyghur’s who are traditionally regarded as having the same floor-seating style while they have different cultural backgrounds and considered seating style through elucidation of changes in Uyghur's way of living in Japan and the environment transition.</p><p> This paper focused on the taking off outdoor footwear and defines the culture of taking off outdoor footwear at the entrance in Japan as " Dwelling culture of taking off outdoor footwear."</p><p> The specific contents of the study are (1) To understand the seating style in Uyghur and Japan, (2) To understand the characteristics of change through comparison between the two country, (3) Based on the relationship between the taking off outdoor footwear and go to the floor and floor finish and seating style, we examine the characteristics of the seating style of them, considered about dwelling culture of taking off outdoor footwear.</p><p> The total 15 Uyghur families were surveyed. They are living in Japan for their assistance in interviews. In order to capture the subject's living style in Japan and Uyghur, we surveyed the questions prepared in advance by visiting the subject's home and interviewing them. The interview contents are the family constitution, dwelling style and seating style of interviewee, they live in Japan, and they live in Uyghurs before came to Japan. The survey period is 4 months from May 2018 to August 2018.</p><p> This study considers the way of seating style for Uyghur’s living in Japan with the same custom of “take off outdoor footwear and go to the floor” and floor-seating, through capturing the change of seating style with environmental transition.</p><p> 1. Even the Uyghur’s are also in the process of being chair-seating, and the tendency is strong in the place of eating, while the floor-seating is easily inherited unusual place of the hospitality, and can be pointed out as a common point with Japan.</p><p> 2. As Uyghur’s ethnic identity, it can be pointed out that floor-seating preference for a place of relaxation and the point of making it a high-floor, and it is considered to be an inheritance of traditional dwelling style. However, this point does not become apparent in Environmental transition to Japan, and it is conscious as a response action to the physical environmental, such as reduction of room size and number of rooms.</p><p> 3. With the Environmental transition, 1/3 choose a different seating style from Uyghur, and it can be said that all cases use chair-seat and floor-seat together shows the floor-seat and the chair-seat are easy to keep compatibility depending on environment and it can be considered that the taking off outdoor footwear and go to the floor is the upper concept of floor-seating style.</p>