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The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019

The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 233 pages
Publication date: 08 May 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.


ISBN-13: 9781009305556

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