- Paperback: 40 pages
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press (24 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1933330082
- ISBN-13: 978-1933330082
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 14 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,025,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Since its first publication in 1992, this book - now back in print - has become a curious classic, taking a simple (yet often incorrectly performed) activity and depicting it with a graphic, manga-style edge. In twelve drawings, a young Japanese man is shown preparing, rinsing, soaking, communing, relaxing, contemplating - all an encouragement to readers to slow down, ease into the hot water, and enjoy this timeless ritual of purity and release.
About the Author
San Francisco-based Leonard Koren was trained as an architect. Suehiro Maruo is a well-known manga artist in Tokyo.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Its utterly brilliant for understanding that enigma of ritualism caught in a bubble of obsessive compulsive disorder that is the japanese. I bought this for the artwork by Suehiro Maruo, a typical genius of the twitchy, close to insanity vein and it certainly adds to what would otherwise be the most logically incomprehensible book on earth.
Highly recommended for the socially perverse rather than those not wanting to seek some social faux-pas.
Highly recommended for the socially perverse rather than those not wanting to seek some social faux-pas.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
This book is like a beautiful poem
12 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
Though this book has few words, it conveys the sense of the Japanese bath and bath ritual with exquisite illustration and word images. There is no other book I have found that deals with this subject matter in such a poetic, thorough, yet unsentimental manner. It was especially useful prior to my first visit to Japan. It helped make sense of a simple but somewhat mystifying cultural tradition.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Informative and Enjoyable, both for Japanese & Non-Japanese
13 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
As a Japanese, I find this small book to be very accurate and informative. The procedure and the idea behind Japanese bath taking is clearly explained, without the oft-found orientalism. This is exactly the bath taking manners that our parents teach their kids (well, at least they are supposed to).
Another great point about this booklet is the artist, Maruo. He is the Dario Argento of Japanese comics, known for his extremely detailed and beautiful drawings of the grotesque. In this book, you'll find a lot of very pleasant drawings about Japanese bath taking, but to the people who are used to his normal works, you sort of expect some blood, gore, beheadings and freakshows that are Maruo's signature themes at every turn of the page. Whether that expectation was satisfied was... I'll leave it up to you to find out.
Highly reccomended. Informative to non-Japanese (and the younger generation Japanese --- you kids have no idea how to properly take a bath these days, shame on you), and enjoyable to Japanese.
28 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Buyer be warned
3 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
While this book does provide information on how to take a Japanese bath, any buyer should be aware that the book is only about 30 pages long and half of those pages are illustrations. Where there is actual text, most of it consists of no more than one or two sentences. This book literally took me about three minutes to read.
If you are interested in the art of the Japanese bath, there are many books about Japan in general that cover the topic in at least as much detail as this book, if not more.
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