The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure

Author(s)

• Linhart, Sepp
• Frühstück, Sabine

Bibliographic Information

The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure

edited by Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstück

（SUNY series in Japan in transition）

State University of New York Press, c1998

• : [hbk.]
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure brings together scholars of various disciplines from around the globe to discuss different forms of leisure activities in past and present Japan, thus enriching our knowledge of Japanese culture. Arranged in five sections, the volume focuses on everyday activities such as leisure, sports, travel and nature, theater and music, playing games, and gambling. The editors place the treated leisure activities into a historical frame of reference and relate them to the well-known classification scheme of games by Roger Caillois.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: The Japanese at Play: A Little-Known Dimension of Japan Sepp Linhart Part One: Everyday Activities as Leisure 2. Respite from Everyday Life: Kôtô-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 Frühstück Part Two: Sports 5. Budô : 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 Part Three: Travel and Nature 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 Part Four: Theater and Music 13. From Pleasure to Leisure: Attempts at Decommercialization of Japanese Popular Theater Annegret Bergmann 14. Takarazuka and Kobayashi Ichizô'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-Cafés" and Jazz-Listeners Eckhart Derschmidt Part Five: Playing Games and Gambling 17. From Kendô 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 on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA36424396
• ISBN:
  • 0791437914
  • 0791437922
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 397 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GV706.5
  • DC21 : 306.4/812/0952
  • NDC8 : 790.21
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Leisure -- Social aspects -- Japan
  • LCSH : Recreation -- Social aspects -- Japan
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA35716068