Changing image of the body in art of the Taisho Period -- Indices of modernity -- Formation of the audiences for modern art -- Modernism and consumerism -- Cultured life as contested space dwelling and discourse in the 1920s -- Cafe contested space of modernity -- Alternate informant: Middle-class women and mass magazines -- Eating in the literature of the 1920s -- War in narratives of modernity in the 1920s and 1930s -- Modern selves and modern spaces -- Japanese printing, publishing and prints, 1860s-1930s

1. Social change -- Japan
2. Japan -- Social conditions -- 1912-1945
3. Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945