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This paper is trying to quantitatively prove Diachronic change of socioculturalmeaning-through comparing Meiji⋅Taisho era using corpus of individual word. Thisis the summary of investigation. (1) Negative discoursive meaning tendency hold a large majority in NIHONJIN(“Japanese”)of Meiji⋅Taisho era and positive meaning tendency is extremely rare. I could suppose from discursive meaning tendency of “having bad habit”, “not equalto Europe and the United States”, “do not coexist with others”, “incompetent⋅ignorant”, etc vesting in NIHONJIN(“Japanese”) of Meiji⋅Taisho era, there issociocultural meaning of “being inferior”. This reflect of Japanese, which wasgrowing a modern nation, longing for and inferiority to the West. (2) GENDAIJIN(“contemporary man”) of Meiji⋅Taisho era has a very negativesociocultural meaning, “being who has lost original humanity”, like modern times. but on the one hand has a positive sociocultural meaning, “new”, which is nonexistentin modern times. and this means that social value of positive looking at contemporaryman still existed until Meiji⋅Taisho era. (3) Sociocultural meaning of FUTSU NO HITO(“ordinary man”), “being ordinarycould be sympathetically accepted”, which is typical meaning of modern times, isnot exist in Meiji⋅Taisho era. Meanwhile, in proportional respect, the discursivemeaning tendency “people who do not has any special ability or experience” is high,on the other hand “people who lead steady lives” is nonexistent in Meiji⋅Taishoera. This gap reflects that social value of looking at ordinary person is changingpositively by degrees as time advanced from Meiji⋅Taisho era to modern times.