The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure / edited by Sepp Linhart and Sabine Fruhstuck
- Bib ID:
- 384690
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998
- x, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0791437914 (alkaline paper)
- 0791437922 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- SUNY series in Japan in transition.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: The Japanese at Play: A Little-Known Dimension of Japan / Sepp Linhart
- 2. Respite from Everyday Life: Koto-ku (Tokyo) in Recollections / Peter Ackermann
- 3. How Cooking Became a Hobby: Changes in Attitude Toward Cooking in Early Twentieth-Century Japan / Katarzyna Cwiertka
- 4. Then Science Took Over: Sex, Leisure, and Medicine at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Sabine Fruhstuck
- 5. Budo: Invented Tradition in the Martial Arts / Inoue Shun
- 6. Blood and Guts in Japanese Professional Baseball / William W. Kelly
- 7. Contemporary Japanese Athletics: Window on the Cultural Roots of Nationalism - Internationalism / T. J. Pempel
- 8. Golf, Organization, and "Body Projects": Japanese Business Executives in Singapore / Eyal Ben-Ari
- 9. Pilgrimage in the Edo Period: Forerunner of Modern Domestic Tourism? The Example of the Pilgrimage to Mount Tateyama / Susanne Formanek
- 10. Work and Play in the Japanese Countryside / Nelson H. H. Graburn.
- 11. Cherry Blossoms and Their Viewing: A Window onto Japanese Culture / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
- 12. Leisure Parks in Japan / Angelika Hamilton-Oehrl
- 13. From Pleasure to Leisure: Attempts at Decommercialization of Japanese Popular Theater / Annegret Bergmann
- 14. Takarazuka and Kobayashi Ichizo's Idea of Kokumingeki / Roland Domenig
- 15. The Politics and Pursuit of Leisure in Wartime Japan / Jennifer Robertson
- 16. The Disappearance of the Jazu-Kissa: Some Considerations about Japanese "Jazz-Cafes" and Jazz-Listeners / Eckhart Derschmidt
- 17. From Kendo to Jan-ken: The Deterioration of a Game from Exoticism into Ordinariness / Sepp Linhart
- 18. Gambling and Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward It / Nagashima Nobuhiro
- 19. Time, Space, and Money: Cultural Dimensions of the Pachinko Game / Wolfram Manzenreiter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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