TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaplin,Sarah
TI  - Japanese love hotels: a cultural history 
T2  - Routledge contemporary Japan series
SN  - 0415415853
AV  - GN635.J2 C43 2007
U1  - 306.70952 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Japan
KW  - Sex-oriented businesses
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Hotels
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index; 1; The urban context of love hotel districts --; 2; The love hotel as a building type --; 3; Images and technologies of the love hotel interior --; 4; Naming and theming the love hotel --; 5; The love hotel industry --; 6; Towards a conclusion
N2  - "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
ER  -