active
whaling
is
thought
to
have
started in
the
sixteenth century,
but it
was
are
not isolated,
hut are
bridged
by
a
number
of
important
linkages
such
as
the
only towards
the
end
of
that
century
that
whaling
developed
into
large-scale
en-
structure of
the
whaling
companies,
the
ways
in
which
such companies
have
terprises,
thereby
marking
Fukumoto's
second
stage.
Here
whalers
rode
in
sever-
cooperated,
career
patterns, and
the
dissemination
of
knowledge
itself.
a1
boats and
made use
of
harpoons
in the
hunt, a
technique
that
has
come
to
It
is
partly
the
nature
of
these linkages
which
in fact
sets
the
Japanese
whaling
he
known
as
the harpoon
method
(tukitori-ha).
Killed whales
were
brought
back
culture
apart
from
the
whaling
cultures of various
Western
nations.
At
the
same
to
specially
established
processing facilities
on
shore.
This technique
was
prac-
time,
there are
other important
factors
that
serve
to
sustain
the
distinctiveness
ticed
in
Wakayama,
Shikoku, Northern
Kyushu,
and on the
coast
of
Yamaguchi
of
Japan's
whaling
culture
-
in particular,
the
extremely variegated
use of whale
facing
the
Sea
of
Japan
(see
map).