Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction. Nationalism, Everyday Life, and the Myth of Eternal Return Chapter 1 .Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan Chapter 2. The Mythos of Masculinization Narratives of Heroism and Historical Identity Chapter 3. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Inventing the Modern Memory of Edo Chapter 4. The Lure of the Modern Imagining the Temporal Spaces of City and Countryside Conclusion Oedipus in Chains Eternal Return and the Memory of the Epic Past Notes Bibliography Index