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BL
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637625
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| Main Entry
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Totman, Conrad D.
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| Title & Author
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The lumber industry in early modern Japan /\ Conrad Totman.
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaii Press,, c1995.
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xxii, 159 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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082481665X (alk. paper)
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: 9780824816650 (alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-154) and index.
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| Contents
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1 English-Language Approaches to Tokugawa Commerce -- 2 An Overview of Lumber Provisioning -- 3 The Process of Timber Transport -- 4 Entrepreneurial Lumbering in Yamaguni -- 5 Last Reflections -- App. A Plant Species -- App. B Table of Measurements -- App. C Yoshino Ringyo: A Research Topic
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| Abstract
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This concise volume surveys three hundred years in the history of the lumber industry in early modern (Tokugawa) Japan. In earlier works, Conrad Totman examined environmental aspects of Japan's early modern forest history; here he guides readers through the inner workings of lumber provision for urban construction, providing a wealth of detail on commercial and technological systems of provision while focusing on the convoluted commercial arrangements that moved timber from forest to city despite exceptionally severe environmental and financial obstacles.
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| Subject
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Lumber trade-- Japan-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.4/7674/00952
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| LC Classification
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HD9766.J32T68 1995
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