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List of Illustrations xi
By Way of a Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
PART I. JAPANESE MODERN TIMES
Japanese Modern within Modernity 13
Placing the Consumer-Subject within Mass Culture 20
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense as Montage 28
Japanese Modern Culture as Politics 35
The Documentary Impulse 38
PART II. JAPANESE MODERN SITES
1. The Modern Girl as Militant (Movement on
the Streets) 51
Identifying the Modern Girl 52
What Did She Do? 65
What Made the Modern Girl Do What She Did? 69
2. The Cafe Waitress Sang the Blues 73
Eroticizing the Modern Japanese Cafe Waitress 75
Documenting the Cafe Waitress 90
''A New Study of the Everyday Life of the Cafe Waitress" 91
''A Close Look at Ginza" 98
"Tale of Wandering" 102
How the Japanese Cafe Waitress Sang the Blues 105
3. Friends of the Movies (From Ero to Empire) 108
Ero 109
Ero at the Movies 117
Toward Empire 122
4- The Household Becomes Modern Life 143
The Family-State of "Shufu no Tomo" 145
Wives and Husbands (the Shufu in Fitfu) 147
The Fufu in Discord/Household in Discord 151
Women at Work 154
Modern Times for the Housewife 162
PART III. ASAKUSA - HaNKY-TONK TEMPO
1. Asakusa Eroticism 177
Gonda Yasunoke's Asakusa (an Official View) 179
Soeda Azenbij's Asakusa 183
Kawabata Yasunari's Asakusa 188
Hollywood as Fantasy 195
Ozaki Midori (Love for a Cane and a Hat) 200
2. Down-and-Out Grotesquerie 203
Beggar Culture 206
Vagrant Culture 209
Juvenile Delinquents 217
The Hawkers 223
Foreigners as Freaks 227
3. Modern Nonsense 231
The Irony of Parody 232
The" Casino Folies" Affirms the False 235
Letting Go of the Modern-Charlie Left Behind 253
Freeze Frames (An Epilogue in Montage) 259
Tempo (1931) 259
Gestures (1932) 259
Code Switch (1936) 260
The Parody of Comedy (1940) 262
Asakusa Memories (the 1970S and 1980s) 265
The Return of the Modern Girl (the 199Os) 267
Giving the Modern Girl Her Due 268
The End 268
List of Abbreviations 271
Notes 273
Bibliography 327
Index 345