W. Puck Brecher (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2005) is Professor of Japanese History at Washington State University. He has authored three monographs and numerous articles on early modern and modern Japanese cultural history.

• AcknowledgmentsFigures and TablesKeywords (キーワード)ProloguePART 1Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History1 IntroductionThe Private “Problem”br/>1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan2 Challenges and Methodologies2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society1 Introduction2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period4 Public and Private in the Edo Period3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State1 The Individual’s Relationship to the State2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure3 Historiography on Modern Japan’s Private SpheresPART 2The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600–1868)4 Peripheries as Private Spheres1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside2 Kōetsumura3 Itami3.1 Itami Saké3.2 The Itami Salon4 Negishi4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space4.2 Resignation and Reclusion5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere1 Introduction2 Practical Childrearing3 Diaries4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private6 “Publicizing” the PrivateSelf-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685–1768) and Kinkoku (1761–1832)3 Self and Self-Portraiture4 Master Depravity and the Self as SpectaclePART 3Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868–1926)7 The Deviant in Meiji SocietyAutonomy, Individuality, and Public Power1 Meiji’s New Normal2 Loser Literature3 Anguished Art4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji’s Cultural Field8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872–1890s)1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts3 Early Student Charts in the United States4 Individuality as Control9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s–1927)1 Kosei in Public Education2 Changes in Student Evaluations3 Kosei as “Public Individuality”PART 4The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868–1930s)10 Vacationing and Moral Authority1 School Summer Vacations2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults3 Ambivalence and Contestation11 Nationalizing the Body Physical Exercise as a Public Ethic1 “Civilizing” the Physical Body2 Western Athletics3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s~)12 ConclusionCan Modern Japan’s Private Spheres Be Moral?1 Reconciliations of Self and StateEpilogueBibliographyIndex