Bedrooms

**//Good stuff here...but be sure to give credit to any sources you might have used....// Kuroda Bedrooms**
__Bedroom associations/connotations:__ __Kuroda bedrooms counteract the connotations of "bedroom":__
 * place of privacy; sanctuary
 * place of comfort
 * place where one believes is safe to express oneself
 * place where one expresses subjective and irrational sides of the human personality
 * subjective--dreams in sleep
 * irrational--sexual occurences
 * sense of privacy is lost--Noboru spies on his mom through the peephole; Fusako unaware of this situation, unsafe for her to express herself
 * Noboru's windowless room gives him no sense of comfort, especially since he has no view of the sea, something that he finds comforting.
 * lack of comfort in Fusako's room due to the certain, exacting, placement of objects--seems artificial and untrue
 * Noboru believes that he controls what goes on in Fusako's room. However, he is trapped in his self-created world in where he believes that he controls the universe--compared to the world, however, he is insignificant.

__Noboru's lack of emotion towards what occurs in the bedroom:__
 * this emotionless reaction stems from Noboru's interaction with the group of boys
 * does not feel any arousal or feeling when watching the sexual interaction between Fusako and Ryuji like most people would have had
 * results from Noboru's participation in odd fraternity, a nihilist group of boys that deny any emotions; find sensitivity and tenderness worthless.

Traditional Japanese bedroom. However, the Kuroda bedrooms are more westernized.