At this point I would like to focus more closely on the living conditions of Tokyo's poor, paying particular attention to household composition, employment, family budgets, and the state of their housing during the formation of industrial capital. In the middle Meiji period, the households of the poor varied in size from two to several members, and most of these were composite households which included a man, his wife, and their adult children. Thus, a typical one- room nagaya tenement was not necessarily occupied by a single family; it was often shared by extended families with an occasional lodger or two. There were also incomplete households with children and single tenants.