Ryokan

Author : Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462908332

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Ryokan by Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke Pdf

With over 180 color photographs and extensive commentary, this book showcases the beauty of Japanese inn, or ryokan. Featured are both old and new-from inns with a history dating back a thousand years to modern inns with the latest facilities that nonetheless capture the spirit of old Japan. Each of the properties has been handpicked by the authors for their strong design aesthetic, commitment to service and purity of their spring waters. The photographs showcase the resorts at their best, and accurately express the unique architectural design of each ryokan. Each chapter begins by introducing the area surrounding the inns and their spas, or onsen, and provides a background of its local history, culture and traditions, as well as the natural environment. The text provides information on the design and development of each ryokan, and descriptions of the owners and their clientele. For those planning a visit to an onsen, this book provides contact details and information on the number of rooms, type of facilities and food, as well as vital information on travel and booking procedures and whether English is spoken. For those fascinated by Japanese culture and design, this book is an absolute delight.

Author : Chris McMorran
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824892275

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Ryokan by Chris McMorran Pdf

Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot springs village resort of Kurokawa Onsen is a rare, bright spot. Its two dozen traditional inns, or ryokan, draw nearly a million tourists a year eager to admire its landscape, experience its hospitality, and soak in its hot springs. As a result, these ryokan have enticed village youth to return home to take over successful family businesses and revive the community. Chris McMorran spent nearly two decades researching ryokan in Kurokawa, including a full year of welcoming guests, carrying luggage, scrubbing baths, cleaning rooms, washing dishes, and talking with co-workers and owners about their jobs, relationships, concerns, and aspirations. He presents the realities of ryokan work—celebrated, messy, ignored, exploitative, and liberating—and introduces the people who keep the inns running by making guests feel at home. McMorran explores how Kurokawa’s ryokan mobilize hospitality to create a rural escape from the globalized dimensions of everyday life in urban Japan. Ryokan do this by fusing a romanticized notion of the countryside with an enduring notion of the hospitable woman embodied by nakai, the hired female staff who welcome guests, serve meals, and clean rooms. These women are the face of the ryokan. But hospitality often hides a harsh reality. McMorran found numerous nakai in their 50s, 60s, and 70s who escaped violent or unhappy marriages by finding employment in ryokan. Yet, despite years of experience, nakai remain socially and economically vulnerable. Through this intimate and inventive ethnography of a year in a ryokan, McMorran highlights the importance of both the generational work of ryokan owners and the daily work of their employees, while emphasizing the gulf between them. With its focus on small, family-owned businesses and a mobile, vulnerable workforce, Ryokan makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Japanese workplace. It also will interest students and scholars in geography, mobility studies, and women’s studies and anyone who has ever stayed at a ryokan and is curious about the work that takes place behind the scenes.

Author : Misao Kodama,Hikosaku Yanagishima
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462916856

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Zen Fool Ryokan by Misao Kodama,Hikosaku Yanagishima Pdf

This collection of Zen poetry by 19th century Japanese Buddhist monk and hermit Ryokan is a masterful exploration of life and nature. Ryokan's zen poems are celebration of the joys and sadness of everyday life. His spare, direct style is remarkable for its immediacy and intimacy. This bilingual collection contains more than 150 of his finest poems in Japanese and Chinese, including his famous lyrical correspondence with the nun Teishin, who befriended him in his later years. It also includes a biographical essay on Ryokan, and useful notes on the poems themselves.

Author : 良寛
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231044151

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Ryokan by 良寛 Pdf

Watson includes the representative works of this Tokugawa poet's waka and kanshi works, along with an introduction and the original Japanese poems in romanized form.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780834824966

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One Robe, One Bowl by John Stevens Pdf

The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity.

Author : Nina K Prebensen,Joseph S Chen,Muzaffer S Uysal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317293439

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Co - Creation in Tourist Experiences by Nina K Prebensen,Joseph S Chen,Muzaffer S Uysal Pdf

The tourist experience is multi-faceted and dynamic, as tourists engage with its formation and creation. The tourists then become vital in creating value for themselves together with the service provider. Experience value cannot be pre-produced, but is co-created between host and guest(s) in the servicescape. The tourist managers can therefore only plan for and facilitate for value co-creation to take place. This book responds to the need for a critical review of how firms can facilitate and dramatize for enhanced experience value for tourists. As the roles of participants and providers are changing rapidly, new knowledge in terms of how value creation and value co-creation can transpire needs to be generated. The aim of this book is therefore to accentuate the role and importance of the core elements in value creation processes, namely, the customer(s), the setting in which co-creation would take place, and the provider. Bringing together scholars from diverse areas to address the nature of how the actors co-create values through interaction in different experience settings, the book also serves as a guide to the best practice of co-creation of tourist experiences. It will therefore appeal practically as well as theoretically to scholars and students of tourism, marketing, leisure, hospitality, and services management.

Author : Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110380701

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Ryokan by Gabriele Fahr-Becker Pdf

Begins with a general description of the features and services of the ryokan, or traditional Japanese inn, in which everything from the decor, furniture and meals to the clothing and customs observed maintain traditional Japanese custom, with little or no concession to modern Westernised life. This is followed by a selection of specific ryokan, highlighting their special features.

Author : Rob Goss
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462919383

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Japanese Inns and Hot Springs by Rob Goss Pdf

Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, Japanese Inns & Hot Springs is the definitive guide to Japanese spas and hot springs known as ryokans. It presents the finest ryokans in Japan, from historic properties like Hiiragiya in Kyoto and Kikkaso in Hakone to luxury retreats like Zaborin in Hokkaido and Tenku-no-Mori in Kyushu. In this Japan travel guide you will find: The 40 best Japanese ryokan and onsens for English-speaking visitors (including 13 in the Tokyo area and 11 in and around Kyoto and Nara) A description of the special features of each ryokan and what is included in your stay Tips on how to choose the right ryokan for you Practical advice on how to book a stay and a detailed etiquette guide Above all else this ryokan guide reveals the enduring traditions of Japanese hospitality, a rich heritage reaching back a thousand years to the time when Japan's hot spring bathing culture took root. The beautiful properties in this book also illustrate the unique design sensibility for which Japan is so justly renowned. Indispensable tips on booking a Japanese ryokan that is right for you and reaching each property by train, bus and taxi are provided along with a detailed etiquette guide to staying at a ryokan and bathing in an onsen, as well as descriptions of the special features of each of the inns featured.

Author : Mark Dean Johnson,Dakin Hart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520970922

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The Saburo Hasegawa Reader by Mark Dean Johnson,Dakin Hart Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Hasegawa Reader is an open access companion to the bilingual catalogue copublished with The Noguchi Museum to accompany an international touring exhibition, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan. The exhibition features the work of two artists who were friends and contemporaries: Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa. This volume is intended to give scholars and general readers access to a wealth of archival material and writings by and about Saburo Hasegawa. While Noguchi’s reputation as a preeminent American sculptor of the twentieth century only grows stronger, Saburo Hasegawa is less well known, despite being considered the most literate artist in Japan during his lifetime (1906–1957). Hasegawa is credited with introducing abstraction in Japan in the mid 1930s, and he worked as an artist in diverse media including oil and ink painting, photography, and printmaking. He was also a theorist and widely published essayist, curator, teacher, and multilingual conversationalist. This valuable trove of Hasegawa material includes the entire manuscript for a 1957 Hasegawa memorial volume, with its beautiful essays by philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished writings by Hasegawa. The ebook edition will also include a dozen essays by Hasegawa from the postwar period, and one prewar essay, professionally translated for this publication to give a sense of Hasegawa’s voice. This resource will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students interested in midcentury East Asian and American art and tracing the emergence of contemporary issues of hybridity, transnationalism, and notions of a “global Asia."

Author : Michelle Mackintosh,Steve Wide
Publisher : Plum
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781761262869

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Japan by Michelle Mackintosh,Steve Wide Pdf

There is something about Japan that works its way into every fibre of your being. No matter how many times you visit, you'll always uncover new experiences and life-altering adventures. Pack your bags and travel with us to a country rich in cultural history and full of fascinating contrasts, from the frantic pace of Tokyo and Osaka, to the wintry soul of Hokkaido in the north and the natural wonders of Kyushu in the south. Navigate the dynamic cities, walk the roads of old Japan in Kyoto, Nara, Kanazawa and Nikko, or go off-grid to smaller, far-flung towns, each with their own unique traditions, crafts, sights, food and art. Packed with cultural insights and stunning photography, this experiential and eclectic guide takes you on a deeper journey into Japan. Read up on history and local knowledge before you go, learn how to navigate the Shinkansen (bullet train), contemplate modern art and architecture, lose yourself in gardens, shrines and temples, and indulge in the best food tourism of your life. This tightly curated list of must-see places and experiences is for people who want to get an up close and personal look at the real Japan. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781590301081

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Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf by Anonim Pdf

The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his poems touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse. Fifteen ink paintings by Koshi no Sengai (1895–1958) complement these translations and beautifully depict the spirit of this famous poet.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756684754

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Top 10 Tokyo by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

DK Eyewitness Top 10: Tokyo will lead you straight to the best attractions Tokyo has to offer. Whether you're looking for vibrant festivals and lively nightlife in Tokyo, or want to find the best attractions in Tokyo for all the family, this travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of this sensational metropolis. Whether you are traveling first class or on a limited budget, there are dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 places in Tokyo to experience Japanese culture and the Top 10 places of worship in Tokyo to the Top 10 restaurants, shops and hotels. To save you time and money, there's even a list of the Top 10 Things to Avoid! Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Tokyo.

Author : Gabriele Fahr-Becker,Klaus Frahm
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0841600929

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Ryokan by Gabriele Fahr-Becker,Klaus Frahm Pdf

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780744055498

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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Tokyo by DK Eyewitness Pdf

Tokyo is a city of complementary contrasts – a truly modern metropolis where futuristic architecture and cutting-edge technology stand shoulder-to-shoulder with ancient temples and centuries-old art and craft traditions. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you’ll find your way around Tokyo with absolute ease. Our newly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Tokyo into helpful lists of ten — from our own selected highlights to the best museums and art galleries, places to eat, shops and events. You'll discover: • Nine easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day-trip, a weekend, or a week • Detailed Top 10 lists of Tokyo’s must-sees, including detailed breakdowns of the Imperial Palace Grounds, Senso-ji Temple, the Sumida River, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, Ueno Park, the Tokyo National Museum, Koishikawa Korakuen Garden, the Meiji Shrine, Yanaka and Odaiba Island • Tokyo’s most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, going out, and sightseeing • Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip – including children’s activities, things to do for free and unmissable experiences off the beaten path • A free laminated pull-out map of Tokyo featuring a subway map, plus seven color neighborhood maps • Streetsmart advice: get ready, get around, and stay safe • A lightweight format perfect for your pocket or bag when you’re on the move DK Eyewitness Top 10s have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002. Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide? Try our DK Eyewitness Tokyo or DK Eyewitness Japan.

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400017805

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Tokyo by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff Pdf

Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.