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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.
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SUNY series in Japan in Transition Jerry Eades and Takeo Funabiki
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The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure
Edited by Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frhstck
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Production by Ruth Fisher Marketing by Anne M. Valentine Composition by Doric Lay Publishers
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1998 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure / edited by Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frhstck. p. cm. (SUNY series in Japan in transition) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3791-4 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3792-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. LeisureSocial aspectsJapan. 2. RecreationSocial aspects Japan. I. Linhart, Sepp. II. Frhstck, Sabine. III. Series. GV706.5.C86 1998 306.4'812'0952dc2197-37508 CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
1. Introduction: The Japanese at Play: A Little-Known Dimension of Japan
Sepp Linhart
1
Part One: Everyday Activities as Leisure
2. Respite from Everyday Life: Kt-ku (Tokyo) in Recollections
Peter Ackermann
27
3. How Cooking Became a Hobby: Changes in Attitude Toward Cooking in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Katarzyna Cwiertka
41
4. Then Science Took Over: Sex, Leisure, and Medicine at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Sabine Frhstck
59
Part Two: Sports
5. Bud: Invented Tradition in the Martial Arts
Inoue Shun
83
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6. Blood and Guts in Japanese Professional Baseball
William W. Kelly
95
7. Contemporary Japanese Athletics: Window on the Cultural Roots of Nationalism-Internationalism
T. J. Pempel
113
8. Golf, Organization, and "Body Projects": Japanese Business Executives in Singapore
Eyal Ben-Ari
139
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
165
10. Work and Play in the Japanese Countryside
Nelson H. H. Graburn
195
11. Cherry Blossoms and Their Viewing: A Window onto Japanese Culture
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