TY - BOOK AU - Silverberg,Miriam Rom TI - Erotic grotesque nonsense: the mass culture of Japanese modern times SN - 0520222733 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DS822.4 .S63 2006 U1 - 306.0952/09041 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Popular culture KW - Japan KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Civilization KW - 1912-1926 KW - 1926-1945 N1 - "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket; Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index; Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense ER -