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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

miriam silverberg

University of California Press

berkeley los angeles london
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B O O K
 The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous

contribution to this book provided by the Philip E. Lilienthal

Asian Studies Endowment Fund of the University of California

Press Foundation, which is supported by a major gift from

Sally Lilienthal.
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
asia pacific modern
Takashi Fujitani, Series Editor

1. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times,

by Miriam Silverberg
2. Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, by Shu-
mei Shih
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

miriam silverberg

University of California Press

berkeley los angeles london
Thank you to Duke University Press for permission to publish material
from “Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan,” in Japan
in the World, edited by Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian (1991),
and to the University of California Press for permission to publish new
versions of “The Modern Girl as Militant,” in Recreating Japanese
Women, 1600–1945, edited by Gail Bernstein (1991), and “The Café
Waitress Serving Modern Japan,” in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Tra-
ditions of Modern Japan, edited by Stephen Vlastos (1998).

University of California Press

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University of California Press, Ltd.

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Silverberg, Miriam Rom. 1951–

Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern
times / by Miriam Silverberg.
p. cm.—(Asia Pacific modern : I) (Philip E. Lilienthal Asian
studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 13: 978-0-520-22273-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Popular culture—Japan—History—20th century. 2. Japan—
Civilization—1912–1926. 3. Japan—Civilization—1926–1945.
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To Ryan (as promised)
For my Mother, June Naomi Rom Silverberg
and in memory of Fujita Shozo
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Contents

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 Café Waitress Sang the Blues 73

Eroticizing the Modern Japanese Café Waitress 75
Documenting the Café Waitress 90
“A New Study of the Everyday Life of the Café Waitress” 91
“A Close Look at Ginza” 98
“Tale of Wandering” 102
How the Japanese Café 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 Fufu) 147
The Fufu in Discord/Household in Discord 151
Women at Work 154
Modern Times for the Housewife 162

part iii. asakusa – honky-tonk tempo

1. Asakusa Eroticism 177
Gonda Yasunoke’s Asakusa (an Official View) 179
Soeda Azenbo’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 1990s) 267
Giving the Modern Girl Her Due 268
The End 268
List of Abbreviations 271
Notes 273
Bibliography 327
Index 345
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Illustrations

Illustrations follow page 172.

japanese modern within modernity

1. Photos from “Characteristics of Greater Tokyo”
2. Daydream of a Modern Girl
3. Daydream of the salaryman
4. Positions of laborers at rest in Ueno Park
5. Record of mores from the early summer of 1925
6. Modern body language, Shukan Asahi, January 1931
7. “Clothing Cocktails of Students,” Asahi Gurafu, April 9, 1930

the modern girl as militant

8. “Mogas’ Beach Pajama Style,” 1928
9. Advertisement for fountain pen
10. The Lady Beauty Shop
11. Modern Girl in café
12. Abe Sada after arrest, May 20, 1936

the café waitress sang the blues

13. The Salon Manchuria
14. Foot motions of the café waitress
15. Clothing of café waitresses on Ginza

xi
xii / Illustrations

from ero to empire

16. Women’s section at a movie theater, 1931
17. Magazine spread showing Shirley Temple, 1936
18. Advertisement for Kunisada Chuji
19. Cartoon for Mickey Mouse’s seventh birthday

the household becomes modern life

20. “How to Make a Sandwich,” 1932
21. Appropriate posture for the housewife
22. Imperial family and ad for Yamasa Soy Sauce
23. Mogako and Moboro, 1928
24. Advertisement for “comfort bags,” 1938

asakusa eroticism
25. Modern Girls in Casino Folies
26. Grandfather with twins in front of Taishokan theater
27. Shop boys on their day off, Asakusa, 1937
28. Cover of Shukan Asahi, November 16 , 1930

down-and-out grotesquerie
29. Photo from Okubo Koroku’s “Tokyo” series
30. Advertisement for Chaplin’s Modern Times,
August 1, 1937
31. Late Tokugawa traveling entertainers
32. Kon Wajiro, “Goods Needed by Women in Honjo-Fukagawa,
with Prices”

modern nonsense
33. Hashimoto Yaoji, “The Blessings of Spring”
34. Program cover from Casino Folies, August 1929
35. Scene from Wondrous Adventures Around the World, Casino
Folies, 1930
 Illustrations / xiii

36. Stage version of Yaji (Enoken) and Kita

37. “Negro Dance” with Enoken
38. Advertisement for the Soviet Storm over Asia
39. Advertisement for Yaji and Kita
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Review 2: Problem-solving strategies and techniques
Key Concept: Practical applications and examples
• Interdisciplinary approaches
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- Note: Important consideration
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• Key terms and definitions
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• Historical development and evolution
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- Note: Important consideration
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• Comparative analysis and synthesis
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- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Module 3: Theoretical framework and methodology
Note: Fundamental concepts and principles
• Historical development and evolution
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- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
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Definition: Key terms and definitions
• Historical development and evolution
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Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
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• Practical applications and examples
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• Literature review and discussion
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- Note: Important consideration
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• Study tips and learning strategies
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• Research findings and conclusions
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Definition: Ethical considerations and implications
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• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
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- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
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- Example: Practical application scenario
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• Current trends and future directions
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- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
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- Example: Practical application scenario
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- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
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