The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure /

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 everyd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Linhart, Sepp, Frühstück, Sabine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Colección:SUNY series in Japan in transition.
Temas:
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
Leisure > Social aspects > Japan.
Recreation > Social aspects > Japan.
Loisirs > Aspect social > Japon.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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