Chabudai (low dining tables) began being used in households in urban areas, and it came to be recognized that the eating place in households was for enjoying each other's company among family members, instead of observing patriarchal etiquette using meimeizen (small individual low eating tables).
都市部の家庭ではちゃぶ台が使われ、それまでの家父長制的な銘々膳の作法から、食事が家族だんらんの場として認識されるようになってくる。