The Japanese Bath [Anglais] [Relié]

Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.

We have lived our lives outside of Japan for more than a decade now. One of us was born in the center of Tokyo; the other merely lived and worked in Japan for four years. Yet, wherever we are now, wherever we live, work, or travel, we both carry elements of that culture that we count as essential to the way we want to live. At home, we eat at least once a week a meal of soba, the buckwheat noodles that are served in hot broth during winter and cold in summer, carefully arranged on a bamboo tray. We value in others that essential part of Japanese communication that places the obligation upon the listener to understand all that cannot be directly said by the speaker. And nightly, we try to bring as end to the mad whirl of the day by slowly, carefully sinking into the hot water of a bath.