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Jonas Rüegg
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University of Zurich

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The Kuroshio Frontier
Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
, pp. viii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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  1. I.1Bathymetric map of the Kuroshio Frontier.

  2. 1.1The main and lateral branches of the Kuroshio.

  3. 1.2Geographical subdivision of the Asian Monsoon system.

  4. 1.3Principal inter-city shipping routes of early modern Japan.

  5. 1.4Graphical depiction of the Kuroshio and “Hayashio” currents north of Hachijō (1797).

  6. 1.5Expansion of fertilizer production in the Japanese Empire.

  7. 2.1Captain Gao Shanhui and the ship’s boy in Hachijō (1753).

  8. 2.2The “Barbarian Rakan” of Hachijō.

  9. 2.3Map of Hachijō with select local currents.

  10. 2.4Seasonal structure of vessel rescues (fragmentary records).

  11. 2.5Representation of a Japanese “bezaisen” vessel.

  12. 3.1Matteo Ricci’s world map (1602).

  13. 3.2Japanese map of the Buddhist world Jambūdvı̄pa (1710).

  14. 3.3Shimaya Ichizaemon’s detailed map of the Bonin Islands (1675).

  15. 3.4Shimaya Ichizaemon’s context map with the Bonin Islands.

  16. 3.5Hayashi Shihei’s map of Japan and its neighboring countries (1785).

  17. 3.6Shihei’s detail map of 1785 and Julius Klaproth’s reproduction of 1838.

  18. 3.7Inō Tadataka’s detail map of Edo Bay.

  19. 3.8Detail of Nagakubo Sekisui’s 1775 map with parallel coordinates.

  20. 3.9Silas Bent’s hypothesis of an open polar sea (1872).

  21. 4.1Georeferenced logbook data (1820–1879).

  22. 4.2Count of ongoing American offshore whaling voyages per year 1750–1927.

  23. 4.3Spermo Cutting in Whales on Japan, oil on canvas (ca. 1823).

  24. 4.4Map of early modern whaling regions in Japan.

  25. 4.5Early modern processing of a whale carcass in Tosa province.

  26. 5.1Revised edition of Johnston’s map of the Pacific Ocean and its maritime currents of 1855.

  27. 5.2Popular representation of a steamboat (ca. 1854).

  28. 5.3Map showing the major coal fields of Japan.

  29. 5.4Construction plan for the Heda-gō’s “fore-and-aft” rigging (1855).

  30. 5.5The Japanese steamboat Kanrin-maru firing salvos in the Bonin Islands (1862).

  31. 6.1Map of the Bonin Islands with English and Japanese toponyms.

  32. 6.2Landscape painting of Ōgiura village by Miyamoto Gendō (1862–1863).

  33. 6.3Plots of land in Kita Fukurozawa Valley, Chichijima (1862–1863).

  34. 6.4The Kanrin-maru anchoring.

  35. 6.5Ono Tomogorō’s map of Chichijima and surroundings (1862).

  36. 6.6Painting of an Ogasawara Tako (1863).

  37. 6.7Depiction of a bomb lance model from the early 1870s.

  38. 7.1Portrait of Bonin residents by Matsuzaki Shinji (1875).

  39. 7.2Ethnic composition of the Bonin Islands (1862 and 1876).

  40. 7.3A Japanese sailor sitting in an outrigger canoe (1875).

  41. 7.4Bonin Islanders in front of a church (mid-Meiji period).

  42. 7.5A Japanese family in a Bonin outrigger canoe.

  43. 7.6Envelope with “Sea Island Cotton” seeds (1877).

  44. 7.7The memorial stela in Ōgiura, Chichijima, with the edits ordered by Obana (1880).

  45. 8.1Representation of infrastructure development on Torishima Island (1898).

  46. 8.2Portrait of Tamaoki Han’emon.

  47. 8.3Children holding tropical fruits in Chichijima (1941).

  48. 8.4Scenes from Shimada’s Adventurous Dankichi (1933).

  49. E.1Performance of the “South Sea Dance” at the 2018 Hachijō–Ogasawara friendship festival in Chichijima.

  50. E.2Japan’s claimed “extended continental shelf” (2008).

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