| description | Catalogue produced for museum exhibition, Feb. 15 - Mar. 15, 2010.
Sponsored by the Nippon Foundation through a "Maritime Museum Network" grant 海と船の博物館ネットワーク（日本財団女性事業）.
The exhibition explored the transition from Japanese traditional whaling to introduction of American and Norwegian whaling, which happened in Taiji in the Meiji period, through the life of the last hazashi, or harpooner, of the Japanese traditional whaling, who lived through this period and witnessed the transition.
Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contributors: Hayato Sakurai, Stuart M. Frank, Jan Erik Ringstad, Elin Graabrak Thoreson, Chesley W. Sanger, Anthony Dickinson
Publisher：Taiji-cho [Higashimuro-gun, Wakayama] : Taiji Whale Museum 太地町立くじらの博物館, 2010.
Language: English and Japanese |