Japanese love hotels : a cultural history /
Chaplin, Sarah,
Japanese love hotels : a cultural history / Sarah Chaplin. - xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15 . - Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
The urban context of love hotel districts -- The love hotel as a building type -- Images and technologies of the love hotel interior -- Naming and theming the love hotel -- The love hotel industry -- Towards a conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Love hotels represent a significant aspect of contemporary Japanese culture, yet, until now, there has been surprisingly little written about them. In this book architect and cultural theorist Sarah Chaplin presents a cultural history of Japanese love hotels, charting the development of the urban love hotel from the late 1950s to the present day, and relating its cultural history to other spaces and earlier forms associated with sexuality, commerce and leisure."--BOOK JACKET.
0415415853 9780415415859
2006033601
Sex customs--Japan
Sex-oriented businesses--Japan
Prostitution--Japan
Hotels--Japan
Architecture--Japan
Japan--Social life and customs
GN635.J2 / C43 2007
306.70952
Japanese love hotels : a cultural history / Sarah Chaplin. - xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15 . - Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
The urban context of love hotel districts -- The love hotel as a building type -- Images and technologies of the love hotel interior -- Naming and theming the love hotel -- The love hotel industry -- Towards a conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Love hotels represent a significant aspect of contemporary Japanese culture, yet, until now, there has been surprisingly little written about them. In this book architect and cultural theorist Sarah Chaplin presents a cultural history of Japanese love hotels, charting the development of the urban love hotel from the late 1950s to the present day, and relating its cultural history to other spaces and earlier forms associated with sexuality, commerce and leisure."--BOOK JACKET.
0415415853 9780415415859
2006033601
Sex customs--Japan
Sex-oriented businesses--Japan
Prostitution--Japan
Hotels--Japan
Architecture--Japan
Japan--Social life and customs
GN635.J2 / C43 2007
306.70952