Description of the operation of Toyo Hogei Co. with in-house document "Jocho-hikkei"

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350365
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture
• Principal Investigator: Uni Yoshikazu 東京農業大学, 生物産業学部, 准教授 (00439895)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Sakuragi Shinnich 下関市立大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00259681) ; Kishimoto Mitsuhiro 下関市立大学, 経済学部, 研究員 (50520219) ; Tajima Yoshiya 神奈川大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40201610) ; Tanimoto Akihisa 北海道大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20306525)
• Research Collaborator: Ishikawa Hajime 下関海洋科学アカデミー, 鯨類研究室, 室長
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 近代捕鯨 / 朝鮮 / 千島 / ノルウェー / 樺太 / 台湾

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The coastal era of modern whaling in Japan was described with the in-house documents of Toyo Hogei (Oriental Whaling Co.), business reports for the stockholder general meeting, and photographs at that time. Toyo Hogei, which have 80% of whaling stations and whaling boats, expanded the fishing operation by establishing new whaling stations in the Yellow Sea and the Kuril Islands. It was proved with the evidence in historical documents that the company was able to make fishing operation efficiently in whaling boats and workers through the year with integrated operations and role sharing in some stations. A whaling vessel voyaged from Taiwan to Abashiri in Hokkaido and the Yellow Sea during a year. The work of Norwegian gunners ended in the early 1930s, the proportion of which was high in Korea and low in Honshu and Hokkaido. The standard Japanese names of blue and fin whales were established from the in-house name of Toyo Hogei.

Free Research Field

科学史・技術史、博物館学