Title The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure / edited by Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstück

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 397 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in Japan in transition SUNY series in Japan in transition. Contents Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Japanese at Play: A little-known dimension of Japan -- Part one: Everyday activities as leisure ; 2. Respite from everyday life: Koto-ku (Tokyo) in recollections ; 3. How cooking became a hobby: Changes in attitude toward cooking in early twentieth-century Japan ; 4. The science took over: Sex, leisure, and medicine at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Part two: Sports ; 5. Budo: Invented tradition in the martial arts ; 6. Blood and guts in Japanese professional baseball ; 7. Contemporary Japanese athletics: Window on the cultural roots of nationalism-internationalism ; 8. Golf, organization, and "body projects": Japanese business executives in Singapore -- Part three: Travel and nature ; 9. Pilgrimage in the Edo Period: Forerunner of modern domestic tourism? The example of the pilgrimage to Mount Tateyama ; 10. Work and play in the Japanese countryside ; 11. Cherry blossoms and their viewing: A window onto Japanese culture ; 12. Leisure parks in Japan -- Part four: Theater and music ; 13. From pleasure to leisure: Attempts at decommercialization of Japanese popular theater ; 14. Takarazuka and Kobayashi Ichizo's idea of Kokumingeki ; 15. The politics and pursuit of leisure in wartime Japan ; 16. The disappearance of the Jazu-Kissa: Some considerations about Japanese "jazz-cafes" and jazz-listeners -- Part five: Playing games and gambling ; 17. From Kendo to Jan-ken: The deterioration of a game from exoticism into ordinariness ; 18. Gambling and changing Japanese attitudes toward it ; 19. Time, space, and money: Cultural dimensions of the pachinko game Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Notes on contributors -- Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai gnd Subject Leisure -- Social aspects -- Japan Recreation -- Social aspects -- Japan SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Leisure -- Social aspects Recreation -- Social aspects Freizeit Freizeitverhalten Kultur Kultursoziologie Soziologie Sport Alltagskultur Recreatie. Cultuur. Japan Japan Form Electronic book Author Linhart, Sepp Frühstück, Sabine. LC no. 97037508 ISBN 0585059152 9780585059150 1438410972 9781438410975

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