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  • 2 - Western Whalers in 1860s’ Hakodate

  • from Part 1 - Global Connections
  • Edited by Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, Harald Fuess, Universität Heidelberg
  • Book:
    The Meiji Restoration
    Published online:
    14 April 2020
    Print publication:
    07 May 2020, pp 40-61

  • Summary

    Hundreds of foreign whaling ships stopped in newly opened Japanese treaty ports between 1855 and the overthrow of the Tokugawa regime in 1868, particularly in the northern harbor of Hakodate. These vessels not only reprovisioned there but also trained the first generation of Japanese sailors in pelagic whaling techniques. Those men, the recipients of northern Japan’s first passports, not only embodied the first permitted travelers overseas but also later launched deep sea fishing initiatives as Japan transitioned from an Asian to a Pacific nation. This chapter traces that trajectory through whaling ships’ logs and records of the Hakodate Magistrate’s office, placing trans-Pacific documents in conversation to explore how maritime activities in the island of Hokkaido connected Restoration era Japan to global flows of human movement.