New book Society Furo to Aikoku / Miki Kawabata

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NHK Shuppan Shinsho 729 / "I love cleanliness" Japanese people? The sense of "taking a bath every day is natural" and "I want to soak in hot water in the bathtub" that is often talked about as a Japanese person. Where on earth did this consciousness that we are involuntarily internalizing come from? From the bathing custom of the common people of Edo as seen by Westerners, to the roots of the "Japanese like taking a bath" discourse, to the role of women in fostering a "clean nation" as described in the household policy book, to the "innocence" of body and mind as discussed in the national moral theory related to the Imperial Rescript on Education. Through bathing, you can see the unknown modern history of Japan around hygiene and governance!