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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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