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Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Binding corners bumped. VG. 23x15cm, x, 397 pp. Contains 19 papers. includes: P. Ackermann "Respite from Everyday Life: Kô tô-ku (Tokyo) in Recollections"; K. Cwiertka "How Cooking Became a Hobby: Changes in Attitude Toward Cooking in Early 20th-Century Japan"; S. Frühstück "Then Science Took Over: Sex, Leisure, & Medicine at the Beginning of the 20th Century"; I. Shun "Budô: Invented Tradition in the Martial Arts"; W.W. Kelly "Blood & Guts in Japanese Professional Baseball"; T.J. Pempel " Contemporary Japanese Athletics: Window on the Cultural Roots of Nationalism-Internationalism"; E. Ben-Ari "Golf, Organization, & 'Body Projects': Japanese Business Executives in Singapore"; S. Formanek " Pilgrimage in the Edo Period: Forerunner of Modern Domestic Tourism? The Example of the Pilgrimage to Mount Tateyama"; N.H.H. Graburn "Work & Play in the Japanese Countryside"; E. Ohnuki-Tierney "Cherry Blossoms & Their Viewing: A Window onto Japanese Culture"; A. Hamilton-Oehrl "Leisure Parks in Japan"; A. Bergmann "From Pleasure to Leisure: Attempts at Decommercialization of Japanese Popular Theater"; R. Domenig "Takarazuka & Kobayashi Ichizo's Idea of Kokumingeki"; J. Robertson "The Politics & Pursuit of Leisure in Wartime Japan"; E. Derschmidt "The Disappearance of the Jazu-Kissa: Some Considerations about Japanese 'Jazz Cafes' & Jazz-Listeners"; S. Linhart "From Kendô to Jan-ken: The Deterioration of a Game from Exoticism into Ordinariness"; N. Nobuhiro "Gambling & Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward It"; W. Manzenreiter "Time, Space & Money: Cultural Dimensions of the Pachinko Game".
