Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) [Hardcover]

Arne Kalland (Author)

Book Description

Series: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies | Publication Date: March 1995

This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to Japan's economic development, being key links between towns and farming communities.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 322 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr; 1st ed edition (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824816323
• ISBN-13: 978-0824816322
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,505,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Japan is the world's leading fishing nation, not only in tonnages caught but also because of the staggering amount of fish the Japanese eat - an average of 65-70 kg each per year. Moreover, Japan boasts a maritime resource management system that differs from and in several respects seems more successful than those of Western Europe and North America. It is impossible to understand the present situation in Japan's fishing industry without having a knowledge of its past. What is more, Japan's fishing villages played a significant role in Japan's economic development. In partitcular, during the Tokugawa period (1699-1868), they acted as key commercial links between the castle towns and dispersed farming communities.

The aims of this book, therefore, are twofold: first, to place martitime resource management within the larger context of social and material reproduction and, second, to analyse the fishing villages in the context of Japan's economic history.