The Way of the Japanese Bath - 3rd edition - Hardcover

9780972784177: The Way of the Japanese Bath - 3rd edition
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This award-winning book celebrates the Japanese hot spring. From the introduction: While all the primeval geological and geothermal rumblings under Japan have set off devastating volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and earthquakes (ten percent of the world's volcanic activity occurs in Japan), they have also provided the 126 million inhabitants of the island nation on the Ring of Fire with a very unique way of life. An estimated 100 million people check in each year at onsen (hot spring) ryokans( Japanese style inns) or hotels, often to escape the extreme stress-inducing population density. The 20,000 thermal hot springs that flow from the ground have become meccas, a place to bathe not only the body but the soul as well. Noboribetsu in Hokkaido is one of the most popular onsen towns because of its variety of waters with medicinal benefits yet most water is classified as simple thermal and most onsen visitors come for simple relaxation. People often shed their city clothes for the duration of their visits and stroll the streets of these onsen towns dressed in yukata - bath (yu) garment (kata). Humans are not the only creatures to take advantage of the onsens. Snow monkeys (Japanese macaques) are regular patrons at Jigokudani in Joshinetsu Plateau National Park in northeastern Nagano Prefecture. Back at home in even the smallest apartments, a deep bathtub can be found for this same meditative soaking. After sitting on a small stool and rinsing off, you immerse yourself in the tub. After your bath, a plastic roll up top is placed back on the top of the tub to keep the heat in for the next member of the household. Only after every one has taken a bath - including overnight house guests - will the water be drained. Author/photographer Mark Edward Harris had his first Japanese hot spring experience in Beppu, a town often shrouded in water vapor on the southern island of Kyushu, converted me into a furo-aholic (bath-aholic) in the early 1990s. Three decades and three editions of The Way of the Japanese Bath later he still finds the magical waters an endless source of both visual and visceral pleasure.

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After graduating from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Arts Degree in Pictorial/Documentary History, Mark Edward Harris started his professional photography career doing the stills for the Merv Griffin Show and various television and movie companies. When the show ended in 1986 he set off on a four-month trek across the Pacific and throughout Southeast Asia, China and Japan. The images created on that trip brought attention to his travel and documentary photography. He since has visited and photographed in ninety countries. His editorial work has appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, LIFE, Time, GEO, Wallpaper, Stern, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Forbes Life, AFAR, Islands, TravelAge West, Travel Weekly, Playboy, Vogue Brazil, Elle Canada, Elle Decoration Russia, Esquire Japan, Harper s Bazaar, Italian GQ, Marie Claire, W Magazine, The New York Times, The London Sunday Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, as well as many photography and airline in-flight magazines. His commercial clients range from The Gap for his fashion photography, Coca-Cola for portraiture, to cruise lines airlines and government tourist bureaus for his travel photography. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a CLIO Award for advertising photography, an Aurora Gold Award for commercial directing and an ACE Award for directing and producing a video for television. In the spring of 1998 Abbeville Press published Mark s book Faces of the Twentieth Century: Master Photographers and Their Work recording in both words and pictures many of the great names in photography. In March of 1999, the book won the prestigious New York Book Show Photography Book of the Year and Best of Show awards. Mark s book The Way of the Japanese Bath (R.A.M. Publications), winner of a Premier Print Award, was published in February 2003 to coincide with a touring exhibition beginning at APEX Fine Art in Los Angeles. His third book Mark Edward Harris: Wanderlust (R.A.M. Publications) was released in November 2004. Images in that book led Mark to being named Photographer of the Year at the 2004 Black + White Spider Awards and the book itself being named the people/photography book of the year at the 2005 International Photography Awards. Domicilium Decoratus (Harper/Collins), collaboration with award-winning interior designer Kelly Wearstler, was released in 2006. In 2007 Chronicle Books published his book Inside North Korea. A revised edition of Wanderlust was also published in the same year and was the recipient of the first place award for Fine Art Books at the Prix del la Photographie Paris (PX3). In September 2008 Chronicle Books published Inside Iran. In 2009 a revised and expanded edition of The Way of the Japanese Bath was released. The book was selected as one of PDN s photo books of the year in 2010 as well as an IPA award. Mark is a contributing editor for publications in the film and photography field including Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and Black & White. He is also a contributing editor for Travel Weekly. Harris shares his photographic knowledge through teaching photography workshops around the globe. In 2012, he was a keynote speaker in Yokohama at the International Travel Mart presenting his series on Japanese ryokans and hot springs and at the Travel Photography Festival at the Royal Geographical Society in London. In 2013 his first book on South Korea and his second book on North Korea were released with a book tour including stops at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, the Korea Society in New York, and the Newseum in Washington, DC. North Korea was named Photography Book of the Year at the International Photography Awards. His latest book is The Travel Photo Essay: Describing A Journey Through Images (Focal Press).

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  • PublisherShashin Press
  • Publication date2019
  • ISBN 10 0972784179
  • ISBN 13 9780972784177
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number3
  • Number of pages212
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