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

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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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639.2 HOL g

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press., 2023

Collation

ix, 224 pages; illustration

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781009305532

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639.2

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Subject(s)

Japan
Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Whaling--Social aspects--Japan--History.

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