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Jakobina Arch: Sailing, Whaling, and Shipwrecks

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Jakobina Arch, Whitman College: Sailing, Whaling, and Shipwrecks: Integrating Coastal Waters into the History of Tokugawa Japan

This lecture was part of the Environments, Societies, and Histories in East Asia Lecture series, organised by NICHE in collaboration with Maddalena Barenghi, Marco Zappa, Daniele Brombal, Francesca Tarocco and the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Abstract
Even though the Japanese archipelago is made up of many islands connected by the ocean, histories of Japan have traditionally ignored the ocean, particularly for the Tokugawa period when overseas travel was restricted. However, this restriction did not stop people from relying heavily on coastal waters around and between the islands of the archipelago - in fact, people were even more reliant on local maritime space during this period than they had been before. This talk will focus on two different examples of how a marine environmental history perspective can enrich our understanding of the history of Tokugawa Japan and help bring maritime space back into the picture. This talk will provide a closer look at the impacts of whaling, an example of a major fishery extracting resources from the ocean, and coastal shipping, an example of travel only possible through adaptations to the marine environment. Both of these examples show how any history that ignores what was happening in coastal waters will miss very important aspects of the culture, economy, religion and society of the Tokugawa period.

Recorded on May 18th, 2022
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