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This chapter studies whaling culture in the Kantō Region (central-eastern Honshū), the seat of Japan’s capital, Tokyo. Whales migrated in the Pacific Ocean off the Bōsō peninsula, south of Tokyo, and several fishing villages engaged in classical whaling, and local fishermen created many whale graves. In addition, surprisingly, there are also whale graves and monuments in Tokyo, because whales occasionally drifted into the bay of Edo (the old name for Tokyo) and local fishermen caught them. There are interesting episodes about these whales.
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- 1.
“Awa no hogei (koshiki–genzai)” (Whaling in Awa [Classical–Present]), http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand-Sky/3011/bousou-hogei.html, accessed December 4, 2015; Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, ed., Small-Type Coastal Whaling in Japan: Report of an International Workshop, Edmonton, Alberta: Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, the University of Alberta, 1988, 26–27.
- 2.
Ibid. (both).
- 3.
Yoshihara Tomokichi, “Kujira no haka” (Graves of Whales), in Tanigawa Ken’ichi, ed., Nihon minzoku bunka shiryō shūsei (Collection of Documents on Japanese Folk Culture), Vol. 18, Tokyo: San’ichi-shobō, 1997, 428.
- 4.
Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka” (Whale Graves Around Tokyo Bay), http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand-Sky/3011/haka-toukyou.html, accessed December 5, 2015.
- 5.
Ibid.; “Chōshō-ji no kujira-zuka (Whale Grave at Chōshō Temple), September 13, 2008, http://blog.goo.ne.jp/yoshi883t/e/505d84c4a6af9916640600b15818c199
- 6.
Yoshihara, 427–428; Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, 54.
- 7.
“Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka”; Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, 54.
- 8.
Shindō Naosaku, Seto-naikai shūhen no kujira no kenkyū (Study of Whales Surrounding the Inland Sea), Kobe: Ikuta-ku ishikai, 1970, 141; Yoshihara, 27–428.
- 9.
“Shirahama kaiyō bijutsukan” (Shirahama Oceanic Art Museum), http://homepage2.nifty.com/kaibi/, accessed December 8, 2015.
- 10.
“Awa no hogei (koshiki–genzai)”; Komatsu Masayuki, Yutakana Tokyo-wan: Yomigaere Edo-mae no umi to shoku-bunka (Rich Tokyo Bay: Restore the Sea and Food Culture of Edo), Tokyo: Yūzankaku, 2007, 79–83.
- 11.
Ibid. (both).
- 12.
Ibid. (both).
- 13.
Ibid. (both).
- 14.
“Awa no hogei (koshiki–genzai).”
- 15.
Ibid.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
“Chiba Kyonan-machi no kissaten o eiga-ka” (Film about a Café in Kyonan-machi, Chiba), Asahi Shimbun, March 7, 21,014.
- 18.
“Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka.”
- 19.
Ibid.
- 20.
Ibid.
- 21.
Yoshihara, 428.
- 22.
Ibid., 424–425 and 428.
- 23.
Ibid., 434–435; “Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka.”
- 24.
Ibid. (both).
- 25.
Ibid. (both).
- 26.
Komatsu, 90; “2011-nen: Sōgō-toshokan kichōsho-ten” (2011 Exhibition of Rare Books at [Tokyo University] General Library), http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai2011/dobutsu.html, accessed December 6, 2015.
- 27.
Yoshihara, 424–425.
- 28.
Ibid.
- 29.
Ibid.
- 30.
“Kagata-jinja to kujirazuka” (Kagata Shrine and Whale Grave), August 4, 2007, http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rn2h-dimr/ohaka2/10gyogyo/13kanto/kagata.html
- 31.
Ibid.
- 32.
“Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka.”
- 33.
Yoshihara, 424–425.
- 34.
Ibid., 427; “Tokyo-wangan nai ⋅ gai no kujira-zuka.”
- 35.
Ibid. (both).
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Itoh, M. (2018). Whale Shrines and Temples in the Kantō Region. In: The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6671-9_4
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