By Design

Bathing is essentially about washing the dirt off your body, but if you've ever experienced a Japanese bath, you'd know that bathing is a lot more than a good wash.

Japanese baths are meant to rejuvenate not just the physical, but the mental, emotional self. So how are Japanese baths designed to achieve these aims?

Guests

Leonard Koren
Author and aesthetic Theorist, San Francisco

Victoria Choo
General Manager, Blue Mountains Sparadise

Masako Fukui
Radio feature maker

Further Information

onsen in Japan

Publications

Title: How to take a Japanese Bath
Author: Leonard Koren and illustrations by Suehiro Maruo
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley California, U.S.A., 1992

Title: Undesigning the Bath
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley California, U.S.A., 1996

Presenter

Alan Saunders

Producer

Masako Fukui

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