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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Tokugawa"
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Gods of the sea: whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Holm, Fynn,

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

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781009305532
Collation
ix, 224 pages; illustration
Series Title
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
Call Number
639.2 HOL g
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What is a family?: answers from early modern Japah
Berry, Mary ElizabethYonemoto, Marcia

What is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of out castes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries, from genealogies and…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780520974135
Collation
x, 291 hlm.
Series Title
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Call Number
306.850952 WHA w