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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (1)
  • Shōsōin Jimusho  (2)
  • "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"--  (1)
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  • Shōsōin Jimusho  (2)
  • "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"--  (1)
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    Shōsōin no gakki (1967)
    Tōkyō : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
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    Title: 正倉院の楽器
    Publisher: 東京 : 日本経済新聞社
    Language: Japanese
    Pages: 234, XXII S. , zahlr. Ill.
    RVK:
    LS 43800
    Note: Zsfassung auf Engl. u.d.T.: Musical instruments in the Shōsōin , In japan. Schr.
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    Yomigaeru Shōsōin hōmotsu : saigen mozō ni miru Tenpyō no waza : Gotaiten kinen tokubetsuten = The reproduction of Shosoin treasures : encountering Tenpyo craftsmanship through the recreation of 8th century works : special exhibition celebrating the enthronement ceremonies of His Majesty the Emperor (2020)
    [Ōsaka] : Asahi Shinbunsha
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    Title: よみがえる正倉院宝物 : 再現模造にみる天平の技 : 御大典記念 特別展
    Publisher: [大阪] : 朝日新聞社
    Language: Japanese , English
    Pages: 223 Seiten , 28 cm
    RVK:
    LB 86450
    RVK:
    LO 89910
    Keywords: Shōsōin (Nara-shi, Japan) Exhibitions ; Shōsōin (Nara-shi, Japan) ; 正倉院 ; 正倉院 (Nara-shi, Japan) ; Exhibitions ; Decorative arts Exhibitions ; Decorative arts Exhibitions ; Decorative arts ; Shōsōin ; Exhibition catalogs ; 展覧会カタログ ; 美術(日本) 歴史 ; 奈良時代 ; 図集 ; Japan ; Nara-shi ; Japan ; Ausstellungskatalog Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 18.04.2020-14.06.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Matsumotoshi Bijutsukan 18.07.2020-30.08.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Matsuzakaya Bijutsukan 03.10.2020-23.11.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Okinawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan Bijutsukan 09.02.2021-28.03.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Kyūshū Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 20.04.2021-13.06.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Niitaga Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan 03.07.2021-29.08.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Hokkaidōritsu Kindai Bijutsukan 15.09.2021-07.11.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Santorī Bijutsukan 26.01.2022-27.03.2022 ; Bildband ; Ausstellungskatalog Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 18.04.2020-14.06.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Matsumotoshi Bijutsukan 18.07.2020-30.08.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Matsuzakaya Bijutsukan 03.10.2020-23.11.2020 ; Ausstellungskatalog Okinawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan Bijutsukan 09.02.2021-28.03.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Kyūshū Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 20.04.2021-13.06.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Niitaga Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan 03.07.2021-29.08.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Hokkaidōritsu Kindai Bijutsukan 15.09.2021-07.11.2021 ; Ausstellungskatalog Santorī Bijutsukan 26.01.2022-27.03.2022 ; Bildband ; Ausstellungskatalog
    Note: 会期・会場: 2020年4月18日(土)-6月14日(日):奈良国立博物館, 2020年7月18日(土)-8月30日(日):松本市美術館, 2020年10月3日(土)-11月23日(月・祝):松坂屋美術館, 2021年2月9日(火)-3月28日(日):沖縄県立博物館・美術館, 2021年4月20日(火)-6月13日(日):九州国立博物館, 2021年7月3日(土)-8月29日(日):新潟県立近代美術館, 2021年9月15日(水)-11月7日(日):北海道立近代美術館, 2022年1月26日(水)-3月27日(日):サントリー美術館 , 主催: 宮内庁正倉院事務所, サントリー美術館, 朝日新聞社, NHK [ほか] , 学術協力: 奈良国立博物館, 九州国立博物館 , その他の編集: 奈良国立博物館, 九州国立博物館, 朝日新聞社 , Zeittafel: Seite 160-163 , Bibliographie: Seite 206 , Liste der Werke: Seite 207-211 , In Japanese, with greetings and list of plates also in English
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    Ryokan : mobilizing hospitality in rural Japan (2022)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press
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    ISBN: 9780824888978
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 206 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 613/.1220952/25
    Keywords: Health resorts Employees ; Women in the hospitality industry ; Family-owned business enterprises
    Abstract: Retreat -- Landscaping the Countryside -- Pariah in Paradise -- Inside Job -- How to Succeed in Business -- A Day in the Life -- Women without Homes -- Professional Care? -- Policing Ryokan Space.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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