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Bringing Whales Ashore - Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan (Paperback)
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Bringing Whales Ashore - Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by
invoking tradition-but what was the historical reality? In
examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa
period (1603-1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized,
shore-based whaling that first developed during these years bore
little resemblance to modern Japanese whaling. Drawing on a wide
range of sources, from whaling ledgers to recipe books and
gravestones for fetal whales, she 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 of how the Japanese people brought whales ashore
during the Tokugawa period, Arch makes important contributions to
both environmental and Japanese history by connecting Japanese
whaling to marine environmental history in the Pacific, including
the devastating impact of American whaling in the nineteenth
century.
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