A study of the significance of bathing in Japanese mythology and the historical development of communal bathing.
203 28 808KB
English Pages 168 [164] Year 1994
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. Viewing Japan from the Bath
2. Bathing, History, and Cultural Change
3. Bathing in the Modern Era
4. Bathing Alone, Bathing Together
5. Bathing Naturally
6. Bathing in Ideas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX