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Bringing whales ashore : oceans and the environment of early modern Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arch, Jakobina K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Subjects:
Whaling > Japan > History.
Whaling > Environmental aspects > Japan > History.
Whaling > Social aspects > Japan > History.
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: The aquamarine archipelago / by Paul S. Sutter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the text
  • Maps of whaling areas
  • Introduction
  • Seeing from the sea : a whale's-eye view of Japan
  • Bringing whales ashore, whalers offshore : coastal networks and the history of whaling
  • Moving whales from coasts to mountains : the circulation and use of whale products
  • Seeding stories : whales as cultural and scholarly inspiration
  • Memorializing whales : religious and spiritual responses to whale death
  • Conclusion. Japan and its maritime space.