Title:
Bringing whales ashore : oceans and the environment of early modern Japan / Jakobina K. Arch.
Author:
Arch, Jakobina K., author.
Sutter, Paul, writer of foreword.
Publication Information:
Seattle [Washington] : University of Washington Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
SH383.5.J3 A73 2018
Abstract:
"... Drawing on a wide range of sources, from whaling ledgers to recipe books and gravestones for fetal whales, [the author] traces how the images of whales and by-products of commercial whaling were woven into the lives of people throughout Japan. Economically, Pacific Ocean resources were central in supporting the expanding Tokugawa state ... [in] this vivid and nuanced study ..."--Dust jacket.
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ISBN:
9780295743295
Series:
Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Physical Description:
xxii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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.
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