Figures
1.1Map of the Sanriku Coast in northeastern Honshu in the Early Modern Period
1.2Map of Early Modern Japan with ocean currents and the ‘perturbed region’
2.1Whale stone and Ebisu statue at Nishinomiya Shrine, Same-ura. Photograph by the author.
3.2Scene of harpoon whaling on the Ayukai Whale Scroll (ca. 1700). Courtesy of Ayukai Ayako.
4.1Net whaling operation in western Japan, Geishikō . Courtesy of the National Diet Library of Japan.
6.1Scene of Ayukawa with whaling station on the right side and the factory ship Michail in the open sea. Photo taken by Roy Chapman Andrews in 1910. Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History.
6.2Flensing a whale with onlookers at the new Tōyō Hogei whaling station in Ayukawa. Photo taken by Roy Chapman Andrews in 1910. Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History.
8.1Whaling festival in Ayukawa in the 1950s. Photograph byKanoi Seisuke.
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