Talk:Bunka Apartments
Latest comment: 8 days ago by Dclemens1971 in topic Did you know nomination
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:11, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
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The Bunka Apartments in 1926
- ... that the Bunka Apartments (pictured) were intended to introduce the American middle-class lifestyle to Japan, but were so expensive that the average salaryman would have to spend his entire monthly wage on rent alone?
- Source: Hisai, Eisuke (2003). "「中流階級」をめぐる森本厚吉の思想と実践" [Kokichi Morimoto's Thought and Practice Concerning the 'Middle Class': A Re-examination of Its Logical Structure and Social Context]. 日本社会教育学会紀要 (in Japanese). 39: 58. doi:10.34530/bjssace.39.0_53.
Yours, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 12:44, 1 May 2026 (UTC).
A very nice article and an interesting hook! AGFing on the sourcing. Good to go.
(The article was created on 26 April and nominated in time. And it is long enough.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:40, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
I've added an image. --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:50, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
@RGloucester and Moscow Connection: DYK deprecated AGF approvals sometime ago; would you be able to provide a translation, RGloucester? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:58, 24 May 2026 (UTC)
- I beg your pardon. See the original (p. 58) and a translation below. Yours, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 11:00, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
この文化アパートメント事業は、森本が米国在住中に得た経験を基に構想した、「中流階級」を対象とする住宅供給事業であり、「中流階級」の科学的・能率的な家庭生活に相応しい住宅として計画された…この文化アパートメントは、坪当たり家賃が当時の木造住宅の倍以上であり、東京市在住サラリーマンの平均月収に相当するという高級住宅だった…
This Bunka Apartments project was planned as an initiative to supply housing to the middle class by creating accommodation suitable for the efficient, scientific lifestyle proper to that class as conceived by Morimoto based on his experience living in America...The Apartments was a luxury residence: the average rent per tsubo was more than double the cost of renting a wooden residence at that time, or equivalent to the average monthly wage of a Tokyo salaryman...
- @Moscow Connection: courtesy ping. ミラP@Miraclepine 01:22, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- The source checks out. Good to do. --Moscow Connection (talk) 01:31, 28 May 2026 (UTC)