The Conquest of Ainu Lands
Subtitle: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780520248342
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Asia - Japan; History / General; General; Ethnic Studies - General; Ainu; Hokkaido; Hokkaido (Japan); 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.