Cafe Images

Deco Japan (The Japan Society)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwrCEjO2S1s&feature=player_embedded

Japan Society, Deco Japan

Research Update

I have started my research with some introduction information of the earlier days of cafes starting in the 1920s. By starting that early, I will learn about the people who used and worked in cafes. I also have done a little research about modernism and moga, or modern girls of the 1920s. I have found a few links and articles by Elise Tipton who did a lot of research about the cafes. Iwill be looking at the differences between kissaten and cafes. Also I am considering research contemporary manifestations of the cafe.

Links:

http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/Tipton.pdf

http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue7/tipton.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_girl

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/~sadami/what's%20new/paper/int-final.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissaten

Final Project: The Modern Cafe Culture

My final project is about how modernism and coffee began to change Japan in the 1920's. I am going to research the changes with the rise of western culture and especially with the drink of coffee. The changes in occupations including the change from geisha to cafe girl. The new signs of in the Art Deco style. I'm interested in how modernism in the form of coffee became commonplace in the 1920s. The concept of moga and the changing kissaten culture during the 1920s should generate many visual culture. I am interested in this flourishing period of the modernism based on the west and the how this modernizing leads in to the militarism of the 1930s. The rise of the modern girl similar to the flappers and the times that they lived in will be part of the project. In conclusion, coffee and modernism are my topics for the final project.