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Author Arch, Jakobina K., author.

Title Bringing whales ashore : oceans and the environment of early modern Japan / Jakobina K. Arch.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Whaling -- Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Whaling -- Environmental aspects -- Japan.
Whaling -- Environmental aspects.
Japan.
Whaling.
Chronological Term 1600-1868
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arch, Jakobina K. Bringing whales ashore. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295743295 (DLC) 2017049247
ISBN 9780295743301 (electronic book)
0295743301 (electronic book)
9780295743295 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)