Housekeeping - Sculpin

...The educational goal through these was to teach students the skills of sewing, as well as to impart knowledge of organization and preservation, and to lead them to the habit of using things frugally. In girls' secondary schools, the first department of home economics was established in the high school for girls around 1882. In the curriculum table for Tokyo Girls' High School in 1886, sewing was integrated into the home economics department, and the contents were Japanese clothing sewing, women's school uniforms, and Western clothing, food, and shelter. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "home economics" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…これらを通じての教育目標は，裁ち縫いの技能の習得とともに整理保存の知識を与え，また節約利用の習慣に導くにあるとされたのである。　女子中等学校では，まず1882年ころ高等女学校に家事科が設けられている。86年東京高等女学校の学科課程表では，裁縫は家事科のなかに合一し，その内容は和服裁縫･女紅･西洋衣食住であったということである。…

※「家事科」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報