The Conquest of Ainu Lands
Subtitle: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: June 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520227361
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Asian studies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1800 to c 1900; Hokkaido; History; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Hokkaido (Japan); Asia - Japan; History / General; General; Ainu; Human ecology
First sentence: In the late eighteenth century, when geographer Furukawa Koshoken crossed over from Hirosaki domain and arrived in the Matsumae castle town for the first time, he was struck by how much certain aspects of Fukuyama resembled Kyoto.