The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure
Sabine Frühstück editor Sepp Linhart editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Published:4th Jun '98
Should be back in stock very soon
Provides a wealth of information about leisure activities in Japan including sports, travel, theater, music, games, and gambling.
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.
"This book opens up an important and very understudied field and does so in ways that are often in themselves somewhat entertaining, as befits its subject matter. It also provides a good guide to the literature in both Japanese and English." — John Clammer, Sophia University, Tokyo
"The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure provides a wealth of information about a wide variety of leisure pursuits in Japan, typically grounded in their historical development, and at times relates these pursuits to Japanese society more generally." — Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University
ISBN: 9780791437926
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 567g
408 pages