Hot Springs in Japan

Tourist Library 10

Hot Springs in Japan
by Prof. Kōichi Fujinami, M. D.

Tourist Library 10
Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1936

TOURIST LIBRARY

Volumes already published

1. TEA CULT OF JAPAN By Y. Fukukita, A. B.
2. JAPANESE NOH PLAYS By Prof. T. Nogami
3. SAKURA (Japanese Cherry) By M. Miyoshi, D. Sc.
4. JAPANESE GARDENS By Prof. M. Tatsui
5. HIROSHIGE AND JAPANESE LANDSCAPES By Prof. Yone Noguchi
6. JAPANESE DRAMA By B. T. I.
7. JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE By Prof. H. Kishida, D. Sc.
8. WHAT IS SHINTŌ? By Prof. Katō, D. Litt.
9. CASTLES IN JAPAN By Prof. S. Ōrui, D. Litt.
and Prof. M. Toba
10. HOT SPRINGS IN JAPAN By Prof. K. Fujinami, M.D.

Volumes in preparation

FLORAL ART OF JAPAN By Issōtei Nishikawa
CHILDREN’S DAYS IN JAPAN By T. Iwadō, M. A.
KIMONO (Japanese Dress) By Kenichi Kawakatsu
JAPANESE CUISINE By Prof. Kaneko Tezuka

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Color painting of a rocky stream bank. In the foreground, pale gray water ripples and swirls around dark rocks, with a small bird-like shape above the water at the lower left. Beyond the water, on a rocky ledge, several bathers sit, bend and stand together in front of a pale cloud of steam rising between rock walls; one stands at the center with an arm raised to the head. At the upper left, a branch with yellow-orange and green leaves hangs over a rock face, and the artist’s signature and seal are at the upper left. — NYMPHS’ MORNING ABLUTIONS
*By Shinsui Itō*

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HOT SPRINGS IN JAPAN

Prof. KŌICHI FUJINAMI, M. D.

BOARD OF TOURIST INDUSTRY
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

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EDITORIAL NOTE

It is a common desire among tourists to learn something of the culture of the countries they visit as well as to see their beautiful scenery. To see is naturally easier than to learn, but flying visits merely for sightseeing hardly furnish the time or opportunity for more than a casual glimpse of the culture of any foreign people. This is specially true of Japan.

The Board of Tourist Industry recognizes the difficulty of attaining this high purpose, viz. to provide foreign tourists with accurate information regarding the various phases of Japan’s characteristic culture. It is endeavouring therefore to meet this obligation, as far as possible, by publishing this series of brochures.

The present series will, when completed, consist of more than a hundred volumes, each dealing with a different subject, but all co-ordinated. By reading therefore the entire series the foreign student of Japan may gain an adequate knowledge of the culture that has developed in this country through the ages.

For those who wish to follow up these studies with a closer investigation, bibliographies are appended, which we trust may be found reliable and authoritative guides in their study.

Board of Tourist Industry,
Japanese Government Railways

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CONTENTS

Page

I. Japanese Love of Bathing ............. 9

II. Folklore Concerning Hot Springs ...... 17

III. Distribution of Hot Springs........... 26

IV. Spa Treatment ...................... 37

V. Notable Features of Japanese Hot Springs ............................ 48

Hot Spring Resorts Near Cities........... 61

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Black-and-white photograph taken from above of a small pool of still water in a rough dark ledge of rock at the lower right, with one person sitting in the pool at its right edge. A broad pale slope streaked with fine diagonal lines fills the rest of the picture; three tiny figures in a row stand high on it near the center. A small pale flat shape lies on the dark ground at the lower center. — Outdoor hot-spring bath on Japan’s roof, Mt. Shirouma. It is the highest spring in Japan, 6,900 feet