Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2013 More Than a Bath: An Examination of Japanese Bathing Culture Adam M. Merry Claremont McKenna Recommended Citation Merry, Adam M., "More Than a Bath: An Examination of Japanese Bathing Culture" (2013). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 665. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/665 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE MORE THAN A BATH: AN EXAMINATION OF JAPANESE BATHING CULTURE SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR LYNNE K. MIYAKE AND PROFESSOR ALBERT PARK AND DEAN GREGORY HESS BY ADAM MERRY FOR SENIOR THESIS SPRING 2013 APRIL 29, 2013 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 Literature Pertaining to Historic and Contemporary Japanese Bathing Culture ......................... 3 Historical Sources: Onsen and Sento .......................................................................................... 4 Contemporary Japanese Bathing Culture Literature ................................................................... 6 Contribution to Existing Literature ........................................................................................... 13 Chapter Two: Historicizing the Onsen and Sento Experience ..............................................