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Gods of the sea: whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019

Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country

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Series Title
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
Call Number
639.2 HOL g
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press.,
Collation
ix, 224 pages; illustration
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781009305532
Classification
639.2
Content Type
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Media Type
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Carrier Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Japan
Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Whaling--Social aspects--Japan--History.
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