Ryokan : : Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan / / Chris McMorran.
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...
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McMorran, Chris, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ryokan : Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan / Chris McMorran. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (220 p.) : 11 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Work to Do -- Chapter 1. Retreat -- Chapter 2. Landscaping the Countryside -- Chapter 3. Pariah in Paradise -- Chapter 4. Inside Job -- Chapter 5. How to Succeed in Business -- Chapter 6. A Day in the Life -- Chapter 7. Women without Homes -- Chapter 8. Professional Care? -- Chapter 9. Policing Ryokan Space -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Family-owned business enterprises Japan Kumamoto-ken. Health resorts Japan Kumamoto-ken Employees. Women in the hospitality industry Japan Kumamoto-ken. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Comm 2022 English 9783110993950 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Communication 2022 9783110994186 ZDB-23-SEW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110564150 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110786934 print 9780824888978 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824892289?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824892289 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824892289/original |
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