Japanese Sports
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780824824648
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports & Recreation; Japan; Sports; Asia - Japan; History : Asia - Japan; Sports & Recreation / History; History; Olympics
Description: In this first synthetic, comprehensive survey of Japanese sports in English, the authors are attentive to the complex and fascinating interaction of traditional and modern elements. In the course of tracing the emergence and development of sumo, the martial arts, and other traditional sports from their origins to the present, they demonstrate that some cherished "ancient" traditions were, in fact, invented less than a century ago.