The lost wolves of Japan / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by William Cronon.

Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing na...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Walker, Brett L., 1967-
Other Authors: Cronon, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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505 0 |a Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy by William Cronon ; Preface ; A Note to the Reader ; Introduction ; 1. Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf ; 2. Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves ; 3. The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan ; 4. Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf ; 5. Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress ; 6. Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology ; Epilogue. 
505 8 |a Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 Notes ; Works Cited ; Index. 
520 |a Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion." 
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