The Lost Wolves of Japan

Contents

CONTENTS Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy, by William Cronon Xl Preface xv A Note to the Reader xix Introduction 3 I Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf 24 2 Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves 57 3 The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan 96 4 Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf 129 5 Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress 158 6 Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology 184 Epilogue 222 Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 231 Notes 235 Works Cited 277 Index 305 ...