Stephanie Crohin: ‘Public baths are a force for good when it comes to body positivity’

Initially hailing from France, Stephanie Crohin has embraced a facet of Japanese tradition that many expats can in all probability recall shying away from: sentō (public baths). As an official “sentō ambassador,” she makes essentially the most of her trilingual language skills to unfold the phrase on Japan’s bathing tradition far and vast.

1. Have been sentō your first curiosity in Japanese tradition? Japanese literature got here first really.

2. Is there an writer whose work you had been significantly drawn to? Jun’ichiro Tanizaki. I found him throughout highschool and later did a grasp’s diploma on the feminine characters in his work. There’s a novel he wrote referred to as “Naomi” that I actually like.