8 
8 
10, 
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12, 
56 
in 1573, to which Ono added 27 volumes of his own of Japanese natural history, 
His account of the fur seal (pp 36-39, vol 47) apparently was compiled fron 
the works of previous authors, It dears a strong similarity to Shitomi's 
account (Bibl 4), 
Kyotsu, Toku, Pictures of Seal Hunting (Ottoseigyo no 2a), No copy is known to 
be extant of the original of thie work and only a single copy of a revised woodcut 
edition published in 1830, which is now in the Hakodate library, Hokkaido, 
Hata, Aokimaru, Curious Views of Hokkaido (Egoto Kikan Hochu), Four different 
manuscript editions of this work are reported to have appeared in the early 19th 
century, all varying somewhat in content, The only known original copies are in 
the Hakodate library, Hokkaido, They were revised and abridged by Mateumae Shi- 
manokami and published in @ single volume in Sapporo in 1863, This in turn was 
revised by Dr Kyuso Fukui and republished in 1939 as follows: l2mo, 190 pp, 67 
figs, Koseikalu, Tokyo, Dec 39, 
fhe short account of the fur seal (pp 106-108 in the most recent edition) 
adde nothing new and is markedly similar to other contemporary works, 
Anon, Sea Otter Hunting: Jour Fish Soc Jap (8), pp 43-44, Oct 1882, 
It 49 significant that the first mention of the fur eeal in modern Japanese 
literature is connected with the exploitation of fur seals and sea otters by 
foreigners, a matter which was later to assume international importance, The 
article reports that the American ships Ottosei and Helena, in addition to 11 
sea otters each, brought 1,400 and 1,545 fur seals respectively into Yokohama, 
Anon, Concarning Hokkmido (Hokksidoshi), vole I-XXXV, published by the Hokkaido 
provincial government, Sapporo, Feb 1684. 
Early in the Meiji era, about 1870, the Hokkaido government sent official 
representatives throughout the island to investigate its customs, politics, 
and products, The investigations took about 15 years to finish, and the re- 
sults were published in this large report, The data on fur seal (pp 8-9, vol 
8 and p 2, vol 34) were furnished by Japanese specialists from the Sapporo 
Agricultural School, They took most of their information from the earlier 
writings, for at this time the fur seal was regarded as of very little inm- 
portance, and no first-hand data were available, . 
Kaneko, Juichiro, ‘Nature of Seals: Jour Fieh Soc Jap (21), pp 3=7, Feb 1884, 
A sho.t, general account, noteworthy because it makea the first Japanese plea 
for fur seal conservation measures, It reports that 320,000 seal skins and 
940 tons of oil and fat were taken in 1881 and 1882 and advises that as prod- 
ucte have decreased since then, the animals "must not be taken carelessly", 
Anon, History of Sea Otter Hunting: Jour Fish Soc Jap (21), pp 42-50, Fed 1884; 
(22), pp 46-49, Mar 1884; (23), pp 55-59, Mar 1864, 
A resune of events in the Kurils as known to the Japanese, from 1869 when the 
Russians prohibited otter hunting there, to 1882 when otter hunting affairs 
