Beginning in the modern era, both terms for the naked body and visual media expressing naked body varied in Japan. In Japanese traditional paintings, Japanese own language with the suffix ‘絵 e’ was used, and after introducing western nude paintings, Kanji ‘裸體’ combined with the suffix「画」was invented. ‘Nude’ appeared in the dictionary in 1930 and it represented nude paintings on its own, without being combined with the suffix ‘絵 e’ or 「画. You will be able to understand the change in the perception of the body in Japan in the modern era, through the change of the Japanese representing terms for naked body or nude.
