Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-54dcc4c588-smtgx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-10-11T01:56:03.724Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  aN Invalid Date NaN

Jonas Rüegg
Jonas Rüegg
Affiliation:
University of Zurich

Information

Type
Chapter
Information
The Kuroshio Frontier
Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
 , pp. 287 - 302
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NC
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/cclicenses/

Index

Abe Masahiro, 144, 147, 154
Abe Rekisai, 131–133, 163, 182, 204, 211
on plants, 184
Abe Shizō, 246
Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre, 104–105
Acapulco, 33
actor-network-theory, 32
actors, 6, 12
non-state agents, 20
Adams, William, 34
advanced organic societies, 32
Adventurous Dankichi, 234–235
Africa, 235
agriculture, 211
Ainu, 41, 99, 168–169, 208
air temperature, 45
Aizawa Seishisai, 124
Aizu, 156
Akioka Takejirō, 86
albatrosses, 221, 227, 229
Aleutian Islands, 99, 152
Amami Islands, 100
Amaterasu, 60
amazons, 60
America, 37, 52, 79
Amur Delta, 18, 73, 79, 95, 104
animism, 61
annexation, 20
Ansei Tōkai earthquake, 155
Ansei treaties, 174
negotiation, 155
Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 154, 205
treaty ports, 114, 118, 160, 181, 194, 197, 214
treaty powers, 196–197, 205, 244
Antarctic, 45
Anthropocene, 250–251
anthropocentrism, 9
anthropology, 3, 8, 56
Aogashima, 37, 59
Arai Hakuseki, 66, 185
archipelagic empire, 196
Arctic, 107
armchair travelers, 78
artificial islands, 154
Asia–Pacific, 5, 241, 246
astronomy, 84
Atlantic, 114–115
atmosphere, 27
austerity, 73
Australia, 79, 101, 109
autonomy, 37
bakuhan state, 33, 163, 168, 192
balance of favor, 196, 198, 244
Banaba, 48
barbarians, 73, 169
Bashi Strait, 25, 218
Batavia, 105
bathymetry, 11
batteira vessels, 144
Bay of Bengal, 8, 31, 83
Beechey, Frederick, 106
Bent, Silas, 106–107, 139
Bermudas, 201
Biddle, James, 137, 144
bird island, 113
bird rush, 245
black rapids, 63
black ships, 19–20, 136–138, 155, 158, 191
blackbirding, 171, 199, 217
blackness, 193, 233–235
boatmasters, 65, 70
Bodhidharma, 61
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 130
Bonin Company, 194
Bonin Islanders, 162, 182, 204, 210, 219, 238
kyū-tōmin, 239
nationality, 204
Ōbei-kei (Euro–Americans), 171, 199, 202
Bonin Islands, 1
bunkyū colonization (1862–63), 159, 162–165
discovery, 24
immigration from Japan, 209–211
island society, 171–172
Japanese interest, 95, 97, 127, 196–198
Meiji incorporation (1875), 199, 206
postwar reversion, 238
Russian interest, 155
settlers, 10, 14
Shimaya expedition (1675), 87
toponyms, 86
various expeditions, 91–93, 131
Western interest, 105, 126–128, 153
borderland, 12
borders, 54, 155
Bōsō Peninsula, 35, 102
Boston, 202
Bradley, Charles W., 135
Bravo, John, 1, 200
Broughton, William Robert, 73
British empire, 105, 126, 135, 141, 149–150
British Colonial Office, 106
British East India Company, 106
British Hydrographic Office, 105
quest for coal, 150
Brush Notes on Hachijō, 37
Buddhism, 54, 61–62, 82, 95
Amidha Nyorai Buddha, 61
barbarian Rakan, 61–62
Buddha Miroku, 62
Buddhist cosmology, 81
Jōdo sect, 57, 61
Shingon sect, 56
Bunkyu Reform, 174
Bussan kai, 131
calendar, xv–xvi
California, 149
cannibals, 25, 59
cannons, 147, 155–156
Cape Verde, 1, 200
capitalism, 9, 114
capital, 115
company islands, 218, 228–229
company settlements, 21, 229
company states, 221
corporate, 243
proto-, 43, 222
cargo, 55, 60, 67, 70, 160
cult, 63
Caroline Islands, 21, 219, 231
cartography, 78–79, 81, 101, 180–181
coordinates, 81, 86, 101, 109
imperial gaze, 108
latitude, 86, 103
legibility, 101, 206
loxodromes, 86
rhumb lines, 86. See also cartography, loxodromes
scale, 88, 101, 109
triangulation, 79, 102
cash commodity, 237
castaways, 128
agents of knowledge, 10, 24–25, 77, 133
colonies, 23, 113
Chinese, 52–54, 56–57
economy, 67, 70–72, 242
foreign arrivals, 18, 54, 56
reports, 108, 203
overseas experiences, 110
repatriation, 71, 128, 134
Russians, 156
on whaling vessels, 113
catch rates, 19
catch volumes, 119
catchment area, 7
census, 74
Challenger expedition, 214
Chapin, Alden B., 200
Charlie “Kanak”, 171
Charlton, Richard, 126, 200
Chichijima, 174, 177, 206
Chief’s Daughter, The, 233
China
Han-Chinese, 13
Ming dynasty, 57, 90
People’s Republic, 16
Qing dynasty, 90
Qing empire, 100, 136, 142, 144–145, 150, 198, 218
Qing foreign policy, 126
Qing maritime policy, 25, 74, 136
Sinosphere, 56
treaty ports, 19, 106, 137–138
chinchona bark, 216
Chizuka Reisui, 230
Chōhei from Tosa, xv, 24, 228
Chōrakuji, 53, 56–58
Christianity, 58, 72, 85, 125
Deus, 72
Jesus sect, 72
chronology, 5–6
Chuuk Lagoon, 231–232
cinchona bark, 20, 195, 211–212
Cipangu, 84
circular economy, 40
circulatory history, 32, 250–251
citizenship, 20, 171, 204, 206–207
civilization, 163, 169, 207, 214
climate, 44, 164, 175–177, 204, 211
change, 246–249
disease, 123
geography of climates, 176
nativism, 94
subtropical, 212
coal, 135, 151
coaling infrastructure, 118, 137, 149–153
coaling stations, 149
cost of, 149
deposits, 153, 157
fields, 152
Japanese, 151, 160
mining, 151
quality, 151
storage, 150
coffee, 20
colonialism, 93, 98
colony, 12
kaitaku, 12, 165–166, 174, 225
kaitaku-sha, 233
settler, 100, 243
shokuminchi, 166
Tokugawa, 165–170, 173–175
colonization, 93, 223
commercialization, 55, 68, 70, 149
commodification, 83
Confucianism, 128, 132, 169, 191
benevolence, 128, 169, 195
filial piety, 169
Neo-Confucianism, 73, 179, 195
consumerism, 16
continents, 76, 81–82, 241
continental shelf, 12
Cook, James, 187
Cook Islands, 83
coolies, 135, 137, 142, 161, 199
coolie ships, 58, 135, 139
coolie trade, 135, 137–138, 153–154
Coriolis force, 26
corvée labor, 122, 146, 209
cosmic drain, 32
cosmopolitanism, 208
cotton, 212–213
Cox, Arthur, 110
creolization, 172, 201–204
Crimean War, 155
crops, 60
culture
appropriation, 240
hierarchies, 13
integration, 33
currencies, 21, 70, 229, 245
currents, 10–11, 23, 65–66, 139
countercurrents, 25, 27
deep sea circulation, 45
Gulf Stream, 10
Humboldt Current, 149
Japan Current. See Kuroshio
North Equatorial Current, 139
Oyashio, 4, 28–29, 43, 46, 242
Ryukyu, 12, 45
south equatorial, 139
thermohaline circulation. See currents, deep sea circulation
Tsushima, 26, 28, 119
western boundary, 10, 44
Dai Nippon Seitō sugar corporation, 22, 228
daiba (defense positions), 154
Daigo Shimpei, 123, 175
daimyo, 72
Daitō Islands, 21–22, 226, 229
Daizenji, 56
Date Masamune, 34
Datiō Island, 219
Datsu-A Ron (Leaving Asia), 214
Davis, Ira, 110
De Long, Charles E., 194
deep sea, 213–216
circulation, 45
radar, 250
resources, 17
sounding, 244
telegraph cable, 214, 244
Dejima, 39
dekasegi hyakushō, 176
diplomacy, 40, 57
disaster, 30
discovery, 219
disease, 60
disenchantment, 213
dispersion, 56
displacement, 199
divine intervention, 61
dojin. See Native populations
domains, 90
Dongsha Island. See Pratas Island
drifting, 53, 60, 68, 228, 242
accounts, 24
driftwood, 24, 56
early modern Japan
defense technology, 19
demography, 18, 41, 49
highway network, 33
international trade, 53
maritime capitalism, 49
maritime defense, 73
maritime industries, 17
maritime routes, 33–35, 139
official ranks, xv
daikan (shogunal intendant), 64–65, 71, 74
shipbuilding, 85
shipping routes, 146
kitamae, 35
nishi-kaisen, 35
Okusuji Route, 36
early modernity, 10, 40
East Asian archipelago, 8, 29
East Asian Mediterranean, 8–9, 29, 32, 241
East Asian Monsoon. See monsoon
East China Sea, 8, 26, 28, 45, 52
East India Squadron, 142
East Taiwan Sea, 25
Echigo Province, 114
eco-criticism, 243
ecological footprint, 15
ecological impasse, 50
ecosystems, 9, 13, 50
Edo
Bay, 35, 156
castle, 34
city of, 18, 242
harbor fortifications, 154, 156
Egawa family, 64, 166
Egawa Residence, 129
Egawa Tarōzaemon
defense construction, 154
intellectual entourage, 126, 145, 182
and Manjirō, 154, 188
maritime defense, 129, 133, 146
office, 114, 127
Egawa Tarōzaemon Hidetake, 122
Egawa Tarōzaemon Hidetatsu Tan’an, 127
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), 8, 29–30
elixir of immortality, 58
Elliot, Charles, 126
emergency credits, 119
Emperor of Japan, 154, 195
empiricism, 213
energy, 12, 49
Enomoto Takeaki, 198, 221, 235
entrepôt, 2, 8, 28, 105, 126, 165
environmental independence, 149
epidemics, 60
epistemology, 7, 10
essentialism, 40
ethnicity, 20, 216
ethnic distinction, 99
ethnic mixing, 171, 202
ethnic separation, 99
ethnic space, 101
ethnic ties, 83, 204
ethnocentrism, 13
multi-ethnic marriages, 202
ethnography, 55–56
euphotic zone, 45
Eurasia, 81
Europe, 81
Eurocentrism, 9, 27
Euro-normativism, 29
exceptionalism, 4
Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), 15–16, 239, 247
exoticization, 207
expansionism, 79, 98–101, 217, 220, 230
expeditions, 92
experience-based knowledge, 54
experimental plantations, 244
exploration, 91, 100
explosives, 47, 49
expropriation, 72, 90
extended continental shelf, 247–248
extraterritoriality, 137, 163, 205–206, 216
Ezo, 18, 63, 93, 95, 99, 104
annexation of, 168
falling tide, 66
family model, 172
famines, 60
fertilizer, 6, 41–43, 47, 242
ammonium nitrate, 46
bird-carcass, 229
fish, 3, 42, 46
herring, 3, 50
hoshika (dried sardine), 43
iwashi shimekasu (sardine meal), 43
manure, 42
markets, 47, 50
nightsoil, 47
nishin shimekasu, 43
scavenging, 40
superphosphates, 46, 48
whale meal, 41, 44, 50
Fiji, 83
fisheries, 12, 242
bonito, 229
early modern expansion, 43–44
fishing fleet, 47
fishing grounds, 50
frontier, 43
herring, 43, 46, 124
industrial, 22, 50
markets, 44
pelagic, 237
sardine, 224
tuna, 50, 250
tuna fishing ground, 124
flora and fauna, 187
flotsam, 54, 56, 242
foreigners, 72, 111
forgotten colony, 163
fossil deposits, 16
Foyn, Svend, 223
frontier, 12–13, 158, 198, 208, 222, 242–243
actors, 216–217
capitalism, 229
commodity, 14, 16, 115
cultural boundaries, 60
frontiersmen, 219–220
incorporation, 217
islands, 56, 194
northern, 99, 163
nutrient, 50
oceanic, 3, 15, 56, 215
pathos, 226
soy, 50
theory, 12–17
tycoons, 6, 20, 196, 220–221, 226, 234
whaling, 115, 120, 224
fūdo (climate). See also climate
fūdo-byō (climate disease), 175
fūdo-determinism, 177
fudoki (gazetteers), 175, 177
fuel impasse, 51
Fujian province, 62, 141–142
Fujikawa Sankei, 222
Fukushima Daiichi, 251
Fukuzawa Yukichi, 214
Furukawa Koshōken, 37, 52, 59, 72
fūsetsugaki missives, 126
Gao Shanhui, 52–53, 57, 74
GDP growth, 42
Gempei war, 60
gender, xv, 234
geo-body, 79, 101–102
geography, 6, 11, 100
geographical vernacular, 243
global, 102–104
of identities, 166
oceanic, 242
political, 78
of salvation, 56
scientific, 118
spiritual, 61–63
virtual, 77–78
geology, 213–216, 213–214
geophysics, 8, 17, 25, 28, 49, 107, 244
geopolitics, 55, 101, 111, 114, 132, 247
geopolitical anxieties, 18
geopolitical reorientation, 4, 78, 101, 244
geopolitical transformations, 19, 136, 148, 246
geo-referencing, 116, 118
German empire, 21
German South Sea colonies, 237
giant albatrosses, 218
globalization, 114, 165, 190, 212
Gold Rush, 137
Gotō islands, 26
Great Divergence, 32, 50–51
green revolution, 48
Greenland, 115, 123
Guam, 201, 238
guano, 16, 23, 48
mining, 50, 223, 229
Gulf Stream, 25, 44, 107
gunboat diplomacy, 158
gunboats, 146
Gützlaff, Karl Friedrich August, 128
Haber-Bosch process, 49
Hachijō, 52–75, 77, 176, 218, 226, 239
in the bakuhan state, 78, 92, 110, 242
castaway economy, 72
castaways, 53, 57, 74
defense, 73
demography, 74
islanders, 219
in the Japanese empire, 75, 219
Kuroshio, 35
local administration, 65
migration, 209
mythology, 59
penal colony, 18
vernacular knowledge, 55, 65
yellow silk, 70
Hagibis, 248
Hagura Geki, 92, 129
Hagura expedition, 129, 131
Hahajima, 171
hairstyles, 99
Hajime Kayanne, 249
Hakodate, 174
Hanai Toraichi, 131
Harada Toyokichi, 214
harmony, 40, 41
Hattori Kiichi, 188
Hau‘ofa, Epeli, 3, 7
Hawaiʻi, 2, 21, 79, 101, 109, 126, 186, 189, 229, 239
annexation of, 220
Hawaiian language, 185, 203
Hawaiians, 126, 205
King David Kalākaua, 22
kingdom of, 22, 117
Hayashi Academy, 128
Hayashi Jussai, 128
Hayashi Shihei, 94–98, 103, 105
on economy, 99
expansionism, 166
Japanocentrism, 101
maps, 97, 181
maritime defense, 73, 93, 243
reception, 92, 104, 109
Hayashio, 38, 52
Hayes, Bully, 193, 199
heat energy transmission, 45
Heda, 156
hegemony, 209
hidden tide, 39
high seas, 136, 141, 160
high-growth period, 51
high-level equilibrium trap, 50
hinomaru (flag), 158, 167–168, 173, 179, 181, 192
Hirado domain, 123
Hirano Renzō, 188
Hirata Atsutane, 100
Hōjō clan, 64
Hokkaido, 39, 46, 211
Holland, 95
Honda Toshiaki, 19, 99
Hong Kong, 58
Honolulu, 23, 110
Honshu, 37, 52
honzō botanic, 163, 181–185
honzōgaku. See honzō botanic
Horton, George, 205
Hübner, Johann, 123
human remains, 233
human trafficking, 135, 142–143, 200
Atlantic slave trade, 142, 161
enslaved people, 199
slave ship, 199
slave trade, 143, 199
slavery, 161
slaves, 200
hydraulic power, 47, 49
hydrography, 104–107
hydrology, 241
hyōryūki (drifting accounts), 25
ideology, 13, 32, 40, 214, 216, 228
victory fish, 237
Iguchi Eishun, 182
Iguchi Naosuke, 222
immortals, 59
imperial nostalgia, 239–240
Inanba, 37
indentured labor, 115
India, 81
Indian Ocean, 9, 28, 31, 49
Indonesia, 101
Indo–Pacific, 246
industrialization, 15, 111, 114–115, 160, 223, 242
proto-, 5, 41, 120, 151, 243
informal diplomacy, 55, 124, 133
infrastructure, 33, 39, 149, 160, 188, 227
Inland Sea, 85
innovation, 15
Inō Tadataka, 79, 101–104, 127, 181
Inō map, 103
insurance industry, 31, 225–226
intellectual emancipation, 18
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 248
inter-imperial competition, 15
introduction of plants, 216
introversion, 3, 242
invasive species, 16
investors, 119
Iōtō (Iwo Jima), 226, 239
Ise Peninsula, 85
Ishigaki, 135, 141
island magistrate, 53, 70
island of men, 60
island of women, 60, 77
Isles of Silver and Gold, 34, 84–85
isolation, 60, 111
Iturup Island, 100, 123, 129
Iwakura Tomomi, 196
Iwasaki Yatarō, 113, 221, 225
Iwashikujira. See whales, sei
Iwo Jima. See Iōtō (Iwo Jima)
Izu province
Izu islands, 61, 64, 73
Izu Ōshima, 59
Izu peninsula, 64, 71, 127
Izu ridge, 24, 35
Jack London, 193
Jaluit Gesellschaft, 232
Jambudvı̄pa, 82, 95
Jan Mayen Island, 115
Japan Ground, 111, 116
migration, 15, 194
whaling, 2, 19, 46, 244
Japan Mail Steamship Company, 225
Japan Sea, 26, 35, 133, 214
Japanese corporations, 222
Japanese economy, 14
Japanese empire, 56
archipelagic empire, 4, 6, 237
assimilation policies, 168
collapse, 238
foreign policy, 195
imperial metabolism, 47, 49
imperial subjecthood, 216
Japanese colonial bureau (takumushō), 232
Japanese “South Sea” mandate, 239
Japan’s Pacific, 21–22, 78–79, 101, 108–109
organic empire, 245
pelagic empire, 7, 22, 75
Japanese flag. See kokki
Japanese Imperial Navy, 232
Japanese names, xv
Japanese South Seas Mandate, 221, 231–233
Japanocentrism, 18, 93–97
Java, 83
Java Sea, 8, 28
Jesuit order, 105, 125
Jiangnan region, 51
jitsugaku (applied studies), 213
jiyū (freedom), 169, 195
Johnson, Charles, 200
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 139, 149
jurisdiction, 137, 142
Kaempfer, Engelbert, 39, 68, 85, 151, 166
Kageyama Kudayū, 90
Kagoshima, bombardment of, 191
Kaifukudera (temple), 61
Kaigai Shinwa, 145
kaigun denjōsho. See Shogunal Naval Academy (kaigun denjūsho)
kairyō shōsetsu (political novel), 230
Kaiyōsha, whaling company, 222, 224
Kamakura shogunate, 60
Kamchatka, 78, 100, 104
northern expansionism, 19, 95, 99
Russian empire, 73, 105, 107, 244
kanaka, 194, 207
Kannon, 58, 72
Kanō Harushio, 54
Kanrin-maru, 156
Kansei era, 73, 97
igaku no kin (bans on heterodoxy), 97
Kantō plain, 35
Katsu Rintarō “Kaishū”, 156
Kawaji Saemonnojō, 156
Kawaji Toshiakira, 129
kazoku nobleman, 222
Keichō embassy, 34
Kii, 120
peninsula, 26, 64, 120–121
province, 39, 69, 121
Kikuchi family, 61
Kinbu tribe, 77
King, James, 73
Kiribati, 249
Kishida Toshiko, 195
Klaproth, Julius, 98, 105–106
knowledge, 24
maritime, 55
Koga Tatsushirō, 26, 220
kohō (ancient medicine), 175
Kojiki, 39, 94
kokki, 167
koku, 67, 72
kokudaka system, 164–165, 168
kokueki mercantilism, 98, 114, 133, 182, 188
kokugaku, 18, 94, 100, 175
kokuseki. See citizenship
Komiyama Tenkō, 230–231
Kondō Shigezō, 63
Kondō Tomizō, 37–39, 61, 63–66
Korea, 4, 40, 61, 95
Kōryo. See Korea
koseki family registry, 206–207
Koseki San’ei, 126
Krusenstern, Adam Johann von, 73, 104, 109
Kumano, 59
Kuril Islands, 41, 198
Kuriles, 63, 78, 95, 99
Kurita Manjirō, 182
Kuro Siwo. See Kuroshio
kurose. See Kuroshio
Kuroshio, 10–12, 29, 35–39, 67, 74, 106
in anthropology, 8
cartography, 103, 107
castaways, 24, 218
climate, 28, 30
discovery of the, 65–66
geopolitics, 114
hydrography, 4, 11, 25, 38, 44, 52
Kuroshio Extension, 26, 46, 112, 116, 249
Kuroshio highway, 136, 138–139
Kuroshio route, 33, 49, 68, 137
Kuroshio sailing, 63
Large Meander, 8, 26, 29, 68
in literature, 59
navigation, 33, 35, 85, 139–140
nutrient stream, 242
River Kurose, 39, 64, 66, 104
river Kuroshio, 32, 39, 54, 60, 109, 244
river Ryūsa, 39, 61
virtual geography, 18
whaling, 1, 46, 50, 111, 119
Kuroshio Frontier, 4–5, 12, 14–16, 21
Kyokutei “Takizawa” Bakin, 59–60
Kyoto, 44, 103
kyūdojin, 207
La Pérouse, Jean-François de, 73, 104
labor, 199
Latour, Bruno, 103
Lake Biwa, 43
Lake Tanganyika, 31
land of immortals, 77
land reclamation, 177
land-borne economy, 18
larger Eastern Sea, 81
larger Western Sea, 81
lawlessness, 17
Laxman expedition, 125
LeGendre, Charles, 140
lesser Eastern Sea, 81
lesser Western Sea, 81
lifeline, 245
linguistics, 203
Linnaeus, Carl, 184
Lisianski island, 229
logbook data, 111–113, 116, 118
London, Jack, 208
longitude, 103
longue durée, 6, 28
Lüdao, 25
Luzon, 11, 25, 44
lynch law, 194, 217
macro-geography, 29
Magellan, Ferdinand, 81
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 154
Makah tribe, 128
Malthusian crises, 165
Mamiya Rinzō, 73, 79, 101, 104
Manchukuo, 47, 237
Manchuria, 47, 100
Manila, 25
Manila Galleons, 33, 49
Manuppis, Chuukese chief, 231, 233
Manzan Shōten, 46
Māori, 83
maps, 81
Bankoku sōzu (world maps), 80
bathymetric, 214
of the Bonin Islands, 178
commercial, 54
Hayashi Shihei’s map, 95–96, 99, 103
kuni ezu (cadastral maps), 39, 54
mappa mundi, 81
maritime, 64, 131
markets, 111
modern, 79, 109
Nagakubo map, 104
navigational charts, 76
Orbis Terrarum, 81, 109
portolan charts, 83, 86, 88
road-centric, 88
Shimaya, xii, 78, 88, 91, 108
Siebold Incident, 104
textual, 79
world, 4, 111
Marco Polo, 84
Marcus Island, 14, 219–220, 228
Mariana Islands, 100
Marine drift, 139
marine produce, markets, 3
maritime conflict, 136
maritime history, 8–9
Maritime Path, The, 8, 23, 56
maroon, 161
Marquesas, 200
Marquese, John, 200
Marshall Islands, 233, 237
materia medica. See honzō botanic
mathematics, 84
Matsudaira Sadanobu, 73, 93, 97, 125
Matsumae domain, 43, 99–100, 110, 123
Matsuzaki Shinji, 201, 208
Maury, Matthew F., 15, 106, 118, 139
Maximal Sustainable Yield, 9
Mazarro, Matthew, 200–202
Mazu cult, 56–57, 62
medicine, 94
Mediterranean, 8, 17, 29, 49, 86
Meiji period, 5, 10, 46, 55, 75, 88, 151, 166, 221
colonialism, 163
Meiji Emperor, 39, 208, 214
Meiji empire, 195
Meiji government, 20
Meiji Reform, 2, 4–5, 132, 195, 222
state institutions, 216
Melanesia, 63
Melville, Herman, 1, 46, 110
memorial stela, 215
mercantilism, 182
metageography, 19, 79–83, 109, 214, 240–242, 246
meteorology, 32, 246
methane ice, 17, 247
metropole, 6, 10, 13–15, 75
Mexican–American war, 117
Micronesia, 14, 21, 219
Middle Ages, 86
Midway atoll, 14, 229
migration, 199
ancestral, 56
to the Bonin Islands, 198–201
female immigrants, 201
immigration, 209
migrant labor, 14, 122
migrant networks, 10
migrant working commoners. See dekasegi hyakushō
migrants, 22, 202
Mikawaguchi Terumasa, 37, 72–73
Millichamp, Richard, 200–201
Minami no Torishima, 21, 239, 247. See also Marcus Island
Minamoto no Tametomo, 59–60
Mineta Fūkō, 145
Ministry for the Promotion of Agriculture (kannō kyoku), 211
minshūshi (popular history), 8
minzokugaku, 8
Mito domain, 72, 84
Mitsubishi Steamship Company, 225
Mitsukuri Genpo, 147
Miyake, 35, 37
Miyako. See Kyoto
Miyamoto Gendō (also “Motomichi”), 173, 181, 183
Miyara Tōsō, 142
Mizuno Tadakuni, 129–130
Mizuno Tadanori, 162, 168–169, 173–174, 176–178, 182, 196
Mizutani Shinroku, 218, 234
Mizutani island. See Marcus Island
Moana-nui-a-Kiva, 83
Moby Dick, 46, 110
modernity, 10, 158, 162, 191
Mogami Tokunai, 104
monsoon, 17, 29–32, 55, 139
Australasian Monsoon, 8, 30, 241
East Asian Monsoon, 4, 17, 28–29
Mori Kōan, 97, 102
Mori Koben, 14, 21, 231–235
Morris, Robert, 201
Morrison incident, 113, 128–129, 145
Morrison, Dr. Robert, 129
Morrison, ship, 25, 128, 136
Motley, James, 170
Motley, Thomas, 172
Motoori Norinaga, 94
mottainai, 40
Mount Fuji, 102, 216
Munin Jima, 86, 177. See also Bonin Islands
Murayama Tōan, 85
Muroto, 223
mutiny, 19, 135, 142
Mutsu province, 124
Myers, Robert, 206
mythology, 39, 94
Nabeshima Naomasa, 147
nada, 81
Nagakubo Sekisui, 102–104, 109
Nagasaki, 53, 74, 90
defense, 2, 73
harbor defense, 146
international relations, 74, 113, 127, 144
Magistrate, 85
trade, 53, 57
as treaty port, 160, 174
VOC, 104
Naha, 128, 153
naichi, 182
naikoku kangyō hakurankai (National Exhibition of Industry and Agriculture), 212
Nakahama Manjirō, 23, 113–114, 228, 250
in Hawai‘i, 113
Manjirō’s journey, 110, 113, 134
as ship captain, 167, 187–188, 190, 205
as shogunal advisor, 114, 147, 154, 162
Nakasendō highway, 35
Nakayoshi-maru, 133
Namamugi incident, 190–191
Nan’yō, 21, 79, 83, 101, 109, 127, 211, 246
Nan’yō-ron expansionism, 21, 221, 228
Orientalism, 233–235
Nan’yō Trading Company, 231–232
Naniwa. See Ōsaka
Nanjing, 57
nankai, 78, 100–101, 216
Nankai-dō region, 101
nanyang, 83
national seclusion, 19, 39–40, 89, 244
national symbolism, 158
nationality, 10, 217
Native populations, 99, 208, 233
natural history, 185–187
natural law, 143
natural philosophy, 175
naturalization, 10, 20, 163, 205–207
kikajin (naturalized foreigner), 163, 206–207
Naumann, Heinrich Edmund, 214
Nauru, 48
naval
capacities, 138
defense, 122, 223
incursions, 19
modernization, 20, 146, 158
power, 118
preparedness, 19
strategy, 98, 132
technology, 20, 155, 157, 221
navigation, 107, 139
astronomical, 35
canals, 35
dead reckoning, 35, 84
fore-and-aft rigging, 155–157
navigational knowledge, 37, 55, 75
navigational texts, 76
open polar sea, 107
seasonal, 18
neo-materialism, 27
New Bedford, 174
New Caledonia, 193
New England, 113
New Philippines. See Bonin Islands
New Qing History, 13
New Spain, 33
New Zealand, 83, 101
Newfoundland, 115
Niijima Island, 91
ninghai, 81
Nirai-Kanai, 62
Nirayama, 64, 127
Nishikawa Joken, 2, 76, 94, 95
Nishizawa Kichiji, 21, 219
Nishizawa Island, 219. See also Pratas Island
Nissan Chemical, 46
No-Man-Land. See Bonin Islands
North America, 99
North Equatorial Current, 44
nutrients, 44–49
nightsoil, 42, 47
nitrate, 12, 45
nutrient base, 50
nutrient recycling, 42
nutrient stream, 12, 44, 121
phosphate, 12, 45–46
Nye, Gideon, 150
Obana Sakunosuke
on economy, 174, 186
on environment, 175, 184, 186–187
on expansion, 215
as Meiji official, 195, 199, 212
as shogunal official, 162–163, 167, 172
on whales, 190
Oceania, 3, 7, 109
oceanic geography, 25–27
oceanic history, 7, 9–10
oceanography, 33, 214
oceans, 54, 81, 241
-centrism, 28
colonization, 218
fears, 25
oceanus, 82
Oda Nobunaga, 41
Odawara, 64
offshore
business, 194
industrialization, 6
mingling, 2
peddling, 10
trafficking, 110–111, 124–126
whaling, 6
Ogasawara family, 93
Ogasawara Chōkei, 93
Ogasawara Sadatō, 93, 177
Ogasawara Sadayori, 93, 97, 177, 181, 192
Ogasawara Islands, 91, 93, 177. See also Bonin Islands
Ogasawara Tako, 183–185
Ogasawara Village, 239
Ogasawara-tō yōroku, 216
Ōhira Kyōko, 239
Oki no Torishima, 239, 247, 249
Okinawa, 113, 134, 166, 228, 238, 247
emigrants, 219
Ōkubo Toshimichi, 215, 217
Ōkuma Shigenobu, 196–198, 211, 223
Olympic Peninsula, 25, 30
onboard hierarchies, 172
Ono Tomogorō, 92, 107, 179, 181
opening of Japan, 6, 19–20, 136, 159–161
Opium War, 74, 106, 134, 145, 160
Oregon Territory, 128
organic empire, 28
Orientalism, 234
orphan tsunami, 30
Ortelius, Abraham, 84
Osaka, 60
Oshikawa Shunrō, 231
Otaheite, Harry, 200
othering, 240
Otokichi from Owari, 25, 250
Ōtsuki Gentaku, 123
Ōtsuki Heisen, 120, 123
outcastes, 93
outrigger canoe, 158, 172, 204, 208–210, 240
O-Yoshi, 201
Pacific, 30, 49, 77–78
Gulf Stream. See Kuroshio
invention of the, 3, 76, 78–79, 81, 108
Islanders, 200
Japan’s, 6
North, 109
Ocean, 83
rim, 7, 78
traffic, 72–74
War, 245
world, 3, 22, 55, 75, 78, 111
Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 23
Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 149
Pai-Patirōma, 236
Palau, 25, 238
Parker, Peter, 142, 144
Parkes, Harry S., 197, 205
Pease, Benjamin, 20, 193–195, 217, 221
blackbirding, 199
diplomacy, 194, 196–197, 200, 204
murder of, 194, 197, 203
Peel Island. See Chichijima
pelagic empire, 50, 236–237
penal colony, 18, 55, 65, 75
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 150
People’s Rights Movement, 21, 220, 230, 235
Perry, Commodore M. C., 19, 106, 111, 118, 135–137, 148, 160, 170, 197
petroleum, 17, 47, 151, 224
Philippines, 10, 79, 100
photic zone, 12
photosynthesis, 45
physicians, 169, 174, 182
piracy, 20, 67, 111, 138, 142, 169–170, 193–195, 205, 221
intellectual, 20, 138
pirate raids, 169
pirates, 142, 193–194
wakō pirates, 41, 120
planetary boundaries, 250
plankton, 12, 45
plantations, 20
plum rain. See tsuyu (plum rain)
Pohnpei, 193
polar passage, 107
Polar Sea, 115
political introversion, 24
Polynesia, 83
pork, 186
Port Lloyd, 6, 20, 153, 158, 162
postcolonialism, 13
Pratas Island, 218–219
precipitation, 26, 45
progress, 114
propaganda, 237
prostitutes, 174
proto-industry, 42
Pruyn, Robert H., 205
Putyatin, Yevfimiy, 155
Qin Shi Huang, 58
race, 99, 202, 234
racial hierarchies, 209, 232
racial homogeneity, 238
racialization, 233
theories, 177
rare earth minerals, 17, 247
Rasa Island, 47, 228
Rasetsu, 59
rationality, 69
realpolitik, 100, 160, 214
Red Whale, 77
repatriation, 18, 53, 67, 113, 239
rescue, 68, 113
resources, 6, 14, 17, 51, 190
administration, 165
base, 6–7, 28, 42, 46–47, 245
competition, 247
cycles, 49
deep sea, 246–247
exhaustion, 115
extraction, 14, 16
scarcity, 5–6, 28, 40, 41
reverse design, 154–158
Rezanov expedition, 129
rhumb lines, 86, 88
Ricci, Matteo, 79, 94, 102
ridges, 12
Rikken kaishintō, 230
rim states, 246
ring of fire, 30
rising sun. See hinomaru (flag)
risk, 17, 24, 29, 69
accident rate, 69
assessment, 31
risk-hedging, 70
riskscape, 30, 49
seasonal hazards, 30
ritsuryō state, 33, 101
Robert Bowne incident, 19, 135–136, 141–143
Robertson, Russell, 194
Robinson Crusoe, 234
romanticization, 9, 21, 40
rōnin, 64
runin, 64
Russia, 2, 58, 63, 73, 78, 95, 99
Russian North America, 73
Russo-Japanese war, 223
ryō, 70–71
Ryukyu, 66, 95, 100, 110–111, 142
han, 168
kingdom, 26, 135–136
Shō dynasty, 120
Sado Island, 89
Sagami province, 61
Saigō Tsugumichi, 198
Sakamoto Ryōma, 113, 221
Sakhalin, 41, 46, 73, 79, 99, 103–104, 198
sakoku. See national seclusion
Sakuma Shōzan, 146
salinity, 44
Sāmoa, 83
samurai, 65
exile, 39, 52, 58, 64, 90
former, 209, 220
house arrest, 97, 132, 244
nominal samurai status, 84
status, 55, 195
San Francisco, 58, 107, 141
San Juan Batista, 34
sandboats, 68
sankin kōtai, 33
Santa Buenaventura, 34
sardines, 43
Sasamoto family, 64
Satō Nobuhiro, 19, 100, 129, 166, 176, 243
Satsuma
domain, 61, 66, 141
invasion of Ryukyu, 136
sweet potatoes, 61
Savory, Maria, 201, 204
Savory, Nathaniel, 153, 168–170, 201–202, 204
arrival in the Bonins, 200
as councilman, 172–173, 178, 200, 202
duck theft, 169
science, 211–213
scientific conferences, 20
Scott, James, 172
scramble for the Pacific, 163
sea birds, 16
sea level rise, 247
sea of islands, 3, 101
Sea of Japan, 8
Sea of Melayu, 31
Sea of Okhotsk
border formation, 168
fisheries, 42, 50
frontier islands, 63
Russian presence, 73, 78, 95, 122, 243
trading networks, 8, 28, 83
whaling, 112, 116, 118, 133, 224
sea temperatures, 248
seasons, 8, 29, 55, 68, 105, 182
monsoon, 30
seasonal storms, 29
seaweed, 43
Seitetsu-jo shogunal wharf, 158
seiyō (occident), 82, 241
self-representation, 213
semi-colonialism, 196
Sendai domain, 95
Senior Council, 74
Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, 16, 26, 220, 229, 247
Senkyō tribe, 77
settlers, 163, 183
Shakuhakō tribe, 77
Shanghai, 202
shareholding, 70
Shell-Repel edict, 111
criticism, 130
practice, 128, 136
proclamation, 125, 158, 160
revocation, 134, 138, 141, 160
Shibukawa Rokuzō, 144
Shibuzawa Eiichi, 225
Shiga Shigetaka, 21, 109, 226, 235
Shikoku, 100, 113
Shimabara, battle of, 84
Shimaya family, 108
Shimaya Ichizaemon, xi, 78, 92, 108, 187, 192
Shimaya expedition, 76–77, 84, 88–90
Shimaya maps, 18, 87, 89, 97
Shimazu Nariakira, 141, 147
Shimoda, 35, 53, 74
Shimonoseki, bombardment of, 157
Shinsui kyūyo rei, 74
Shintoism, 61–62
shipbuilding, 68, 158
ship-jumping, 153, 161, 170, 172, 202
shipping
businesses, 67, 242
capitalism, 67–70, 225
lanes, 36, 67
pelagic sailing, 12
riverine, 149
speed, 35, 85, 153
shipwreck, 61, 220, 228
shipwrights, 155
Shizuki Tadao, 12, 39, 166
shogun, 2
Shogunal Naval Academy (kaigun denjōsho), 156, 158
shogunal navy, 192
shokuminchi, 12, 216
shogunal navy, 157
Shōshi kai, 127–128
shrine, 97
Shūkan, 53–57
Shūyū, 57
Siam, 84
Siberia, 73, 104
Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 104, 127, 151
Siebold Incident, 104
silk, 70
silver output, 90
Sima Qian, 59
Singapore, 128
Sinocentrism, 79, 81
sinology, 105
Sinosphere, 94
smallpox, 60
Smith, Jason, 154
smugglers, 222
soil nutrient crisis, 42
South China Sea, 8, 21, 28, 83, 123, 139, 218, 239
South Sea, 19, 21, 79. See also Nan’yō
craze, 21
Dance (Nan’yō odori), 239–240
Expansionism (Nan’yō ron), 221, 236–237. See also Nan’yō, Nan’yō-ron expansionism
Romanticism, 220, 230, 234
Southeast Asia, 21, 62, 77, 83, 109
sovereignty, 15, 20, 114, 165, 168, 198, 206, 238, 250
maritime jurisdiction, 143
ryōdo, 166
ryōyū, 166
shuken, 166
soybean, 47
cake, 47, 50, 245
Spain, 100
Spanish empire, 21
Spanish Lake, 83
species introduction, 60–61
Spenser, 193–194
spirituality, 57, 61, 94
Spitzbergen, 123
stagnation, 51
state control, 243
state power, 13
steam navigation, 138, 148–150, 157
steam engine, 115, 146–148, 154
steam power, 147
steam routes, 137
steam shipping, 12
steam technology, 149
steamboat, 138, 145, 147–150, 155, 156–157, 160, 177
steamships, 149
steamboat, 158
storm, 113
subjecthood, 164
subtropical gyre, 26
subtropical plants, 211
Suehiro “Tecchō” Shigeyasu, 230
Suetsugu family, 85, 90
Suetsugu Heizō, 77, 85, 89–90, 93, 107
sugar plantation, 229
Suidō Nansui, 230
superiority, 40
of the Allied Powers (SCAP), 7, 245
Suruga
bay, 61
province, 61
sustainability, 15, 40, 49
Suzuka Shōten, 46
Suzuki Shōten, 228
Svalbard (Spitzbergen), 115
sweet potatoes, 61, 127
sword hunt, 41
symbolic capital, 26, 237
symbolism, 158
synoptic history, 32
synthetic nitrogen, 48, 49, 245
Tahiti, 203
taihei-kai, 83
Taiheiyō, 22, 38, 78, 109
Taiheiyō (Pacific ocean), 83
Taiji, 223
Taiwan, 10, 25, 85
colonization of, 216
Expedition, 208
incident, 198
purchase, 150
Taiyō (vast ocean), 78
Takahashi Kageyasu, 79, 83, 104, 241
Takano Chōei, 126, 145
Takashima coal mine, 151
Takeshima/Dokdo, 239
Takizawa Bakin, 59–60
Tale of a Dream, 130–131
Tale of the Eight Dog Warriors, 59
Tamaoki Han’emon, 218, 225, 234–235
Tamaoki Village, 227
Tamaoki Han’emon, 226–228
Tamura Genchō, 121
Tanaka Hiroyuki, 86
Tanaka Hisashige, 147
Tanaka Yoshio, 189, 195, 211, 212
Tanuma Okitsugu, 93, 176
Tao people, 25
Tasmania, 21
Tawara domain, 129
tax rice, 34, 70–71
taxation, 169
technocracy, 10
technology, 3, 137, 247
bomb-lance whale gun, 224
cartography, 79, 101
reverberatory furnaces, 147
square rigging, 69, 155
steam-power, 147
teleconnected history, 9, 29–30, 49
teleconnections, 29
teleology, 13, 214
Tempō era, 43
bansha no goku (purge of barbarian scholars), 129–133
Tempō famine, 43, 127
temporality, 33
Tenjiku (India), 54, 56, 61, 62
Terashima Munenori, 206
terracentrism, 3–4, 54
terraqueous economy, 24, 242
terraqueous globe, 109
terraqueous history, 27
terrestrial bias, 10
territorial claims, 94, 192
territoriality, 16, 143
tetrapods, 249
Tewcrab family, 202
thermodynamics, 26, 44
tiger states, 29
Titsingh, Isaac, 105
Tōjō Kindai, 166, 178
Tōkaidō highway, 35, 127
Tokara Strait, 26
Tokugawa shogunate, 2, 16, 64–65, 71
bakuhan state, 168
ban on foreign travels, 49
coastal defense, 144–148
downfall of the, 5, 7, 20, 46
foreign policy, 2, 19, 91, 125
foreign relations, 2, 125
international relations, 41, 74
maritime policies, 76, 84, 89
pivot to the Pacific, 4, 20
shogunal flag, 157
shogunal household, 53
shogunal service (go-yō), 167
Tokugawa colonialism, 162
Tokugawa Iemitsu, 41, 49
Tokugawa Ietsuna, xi, 89
Tokugawa Ieyasu, 33–34, 146
Tokugawa period, 79
Tokugawa shogunate, fall of the, 158
Tokugawa Yoshimune, 91
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 195
Tokyo Imperial University, 213–214
Tokyo Marine Insurance Co., 225
Tokyo University, 249
Tōnan Ajia, 83
Tonga, 83
toponyms, xv, 81, 164, 177–180
Torii Yōzō, 128, 131, 145
Torishima Island, 24, 228
company island, 14, 21, 218, 226–228
Tamaoki, 220, 226
Tosa, 39, 120
domain, 113, 221–222, 225
province, 110, 124, 176
tōyō (orient), 82, 108, 241
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 41, 93, 120, 178
tozama daimyo, 147
tradition, 44, 114
tragedy of the commons, 16
translation, 105
trans-Pacific traffic, 19, 138, 140
Trichodesmium, 45
tropical cyclones, 248. See also typhoon
tropical disease, 211. See also fūdo (climate), fūdo-byō (climate disease)
True Records of Hachijō, 63
Tsugaru strait, 111
Tsukamoto Akitake, 181
tsunami, 30, 155
Tsushima incident, 191, 196
Tsushima strait, 111, 152
tsuyu (plum rain), 30
Tuna, 26
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 13
turtle meat, 133
Tuvalu, 249
tycoon, 1, 162, 192
typhoon, 8–9, 17, 24, 29–30, 34, 68, 248
Ueno Park, 212
Ulleungdo, 221
umiam ritual, 99
UN Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS), 15–16, 239, 247
Unamuno, Pedro, 84
uninhabited isles, 24
uniqueness, 32, 167
United States, 16, 118, 136, 142, 144, 194, 200
citizenship, 205
maritime power, 172, 197
quest for coal, 150
US Civil War, 118, 154
US Congress, 137, 143, 150
US Department of State, 205
US flag, 142–143
US Navy, 153, 170, 238
United States Exploring Expedition, 118
upwelling, 12, 26, 45
Uraga, 19, 35
urban centers, 42
urbanization rate, 42
Urdaneta, Andrés de, 33
Vasa Loloa, 83
vegetable fertilizers, 48
Verdam, Gideon Jan, 147
vermilion seal system, 41
vermilion seal ships, 77, 84
vernacular geography, 18, 55
Verne, Jules, 231
vessel types
bezaisen, 68–69
higashi-kaisen, 35
junks, 68, 155
Kimizawa series, 156
schooner, 138, 155–156
sengokubune, 67
vessels
Amagi, gunboat, 236
Chiyoda-gata, steamboat, 158
Chōyō-maru, steamboat, 177
Diana, frigate, 155–156
wreckage, 155–156
Florida II, whale ship, 110
Franklin, whale ship, 110, 134
Fukokuju, junk, 76–77, 85, 91, 108
Fukushu-maru, steamboat, 219
Heda-gō, schooner, 156–157
construction, 156
HMS Blossom, sloop, 106
HMS Contest, brig, 135, 141
HMS Lily, brig, 135
John Howland, whale ship, 113
Kanrin-maru
in the Bonin Islands, 20, 158–159, 162, 167, 179
in San Francisco, 107, 181
Kimizawa Number One, schooner, 167, 187–188, 205
Lily, 141
Lotty, schooner, 194
Meiji-maru, steamboat, 199
Nakayoshi-maru, 133
Navy, whale ship, 174
New York, US post ship, 222
Robert Bowne, coolie ship, 135, 141, 144, 160
Taiwan-maru, 218
Tenyū-maru, schooner, 231
Tōkō-maru, cargo vessel, 57
Tori, schooner, 194
USS Columbus, 137, 144
USS Saratoga, sloop, 142
USS Vincennes, 137
Viking, 58
Waterlily, brig, 193
William Rotch, bark, 23
violence, 199, 233
Viviero y Velasco, Rodrigo de, 33
Vizcaíno, Sebastian, 34, 84
virtual geographies, 39, 54–60, 94, 168
VOC, 85, 104, 143
volumetric history, 15
von Siebold, Philipp Franz, 69
wage labor, 222
Wakan sansai zue, 59, 77–78
wakō pirates, 120
warning systems, 30
Watanabe Kazan, 76, 126, 132, 145, 177, 244
waterways, 15
Watsuji Tetsurō, 175
Webb, Thomas H., 195, 203–204
as councilman, 170, 172, 200
as harbor pilot, 162, 167, 172–173, 222
Wei Lü, 66
Western academia, 213
whale produce, 3, 41, 44, 188
baleen, 115
bones, 115
markets, 3, 44, 119, 188
pesticide, 44
whale oil, 44, 115, 118, 188, 190
whales, 187
Baird’s Beaked Whale, 122
fish (geigyo), 190
humpback, 190
population, 115, 118–120
sei, 122
species, 190
toothed, 190
whaling, 44, 114
Atlantic whalers, 111
boom, 1–2, 133, 202
colony, 162
communities, 119
entrepôt, 158, 160
ground, 50, 111, 114, 120, 124, 242
industries, 111
American, 112, 116
collapse, 15, 190
decline, 194, 197
markets, 119
modern, 114
postwar, 245
regions, 121
revolution, 120
seasonal, 133
whalers, 114
whaling techniques, 188–189
industrial whaling, 222–225
pelagic whaling, 9–10, 14, 114, 120, 187–190, 222–224
proto-industrial whaling, 114, 119–123
seasonal whaling, 115, 120, 175
whaling technology
bomb-lance whale gun, 15, 189–190, 205, 224, 250
firearms, 119, 131
whaling traditions
American whaling, 2, 116–117, 133
Atlantic whaling, 114–116, 188
Basque whaling, 115
British whaling, 171
Dutch whaling, 115, 120
European whaling, 115
Hawaiian whaling, 174
Japanese whaling, 188
Norwegian whaling, 119
whaling boom, 116–118
Whitfield, William H., 113
wilderness, 9, 15
winds, 29, 67, 139
seasonal, 4, 8, 37, 149
trade, 139
Wondrous Tales of the Crescent Moon, 59
wood scarcity, 68
world exhibitions, 212
World War I, 14, 21, 236
World War II, 51
xenophobia, 132, 174
Xu Fu, 58–59
Yae dry rapids, 66
Yaeyama, 6, 19, 62, 66, 175, 236
Yanagita Kunio, 8, 23, 56, 62
Yangzi river, 145
Yankee whaling. See whaling industries, American whaling; whaling traditions, American whaling
Yano Ryūkei, 231
Yellow Sea, 8, 28
Yilan ridge, 26
yō (oceans), 82
Yoshida Shōin, 146
Yuan Dynasty, 102
zaibatsu, 228
Zhapu, 52
Zheng Clan, 90
Zhuangzi, 65

Accessibility standard: WCAG 2.0 A

The HTML of this book conforms to version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), ensuring core accessibility principles are addressed and meets the basic (A) level of WCAG compliance, addressing essential accessibility barriers.

Content Navigation

Table of contents navigation
Allows you to navigate directly to chapters, sections, or non‐text items through a linked table of contents, reducing the need for extensive scrolling.
Index navigation
Provides an interactive index, letting you go straight to where a term or subject appears in the text without manual searching.

Reading Order & Textual Equivalents

Single logical reading order
You will encounter all content (including footnotes, captions, etc.) in a clear, sequential flow, making it easier to follow with assistive tools like screen readers.
Short alternative textual descriptions
You get concise descriptions (for images, charts, or media clips), ensuring you do not miss crucial information when visual or audio elements are not accessible.
Full alternative textual descriptions
You get more than just short alt text: you have comprehensive text equivalents, transcripts, captions, or audio descriptions for substantial non‐text content, which is especially helpful for complex visuals or multimedia.

Structural and Technical Features

ARIA roles provided
You gain clarity from ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) roles and attributes, as they help assistive technologies interpret how each part of the content functions.

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge-org.demo.remotlog.com is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Index
  • Jonas Rüegg, University of Zurich
  • Book: The Kuroshio Frontier
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009534611.013
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Index
  • Jonas Rüegg, University of Zurich
  • Book: The Kuroshio Frontier
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009534611.013
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Index
  • Jonas Rüegg, University of Zurich
  • Book: The Kuroshio Frontier
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009534611.013
Available formats
×