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Advertisement on soap

Answer 1

Personal cleanliness was one of the most significant Japanese virtues for the West, and exploited by makers of soap, perfumes, and so on. At a time when a weekly bath was considered adequate for most Americans (and the British Pears' Soap ads promoted daily washing of the face as something desirable but not universal, in a series of ads asking "Have you used Pears Soap today?"), the Japanese were reputed to bathe daily. Accounts of this practice included such novelties as communal bathing, bathing outdoors with no attempt at screening the body from the sight of passersby, bathing in boiling hot water, and bathing several times a day. This could be seen as disgusting, as in an 1863 article in Harper's New Monthly Magazine("Pictures of the Japanese," Nov. 1863, anonymous but based on Rutherford Alcock's book The Capital of the Tycoon), where a discussion of prostitution (the "Social Evil") is followed by this comment:

Answer 2

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