Hadaka Ha Itsu Kara Hazukashiku Natta Ka "Ratai" No Nippon Kindai Shi (Chikuma Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Mixed public bathhouses where men and women of all ages mingle, women bathing in their gardens, people going about their work in what appears to be nudity.... Foreigners who visited Japan at the end of the Edo period were surprised at the indifference of Japanese people to each other's nudity, and they recorded their impressions. However, the rapid modernization of Japan affected Japanese people's view of nudity, and they soon came to regard nudity as something immoral. This cultural history of "nakedness" traces the evolution of Japanese people's sexual interest and sense of shame through careful reading of contemporaneous materials.

老若男女が入り乱れる混浴の公衆浴場、庭先で行水をする女性たち、裸同然の格好で仕事をする人々...。幕末、日本を訪れた外国人たちは互いの裸に無関心な日本人に驚き、その様子をこぞって記録した。しかし急激な近代化が日本人の裸観に影響を与え、いつしか裸を不道徳なものと見なすようになる。同時代資料を丹念に読み解き、日本人の性的関心と羞恥心の変遷をたどる「裸」の日本文化史。