[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.