Tsukiji The Fish Market at the Center of the World

Name: Tsukiji The Fish Market at the Center of the World
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ISBN: 9780520220249

ISBN-10: 0520220242

ISBN-13: 9780520220249

Edition: 2005

Authors: Theodore C. Bestor

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Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji--the world's largest marketplace for seafood--is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor--who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and fishing ports in Japan, North America,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 439
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


Words, Dates, Statistics, Money



Tokyo's Pantry



Grooved Channels



From Landfill to Marketplace



The Raw and the Cooked



Visible Hands



Family Firm



Trading Places



Full Circle



Visiting Tsukiji



Video, Web, and Statistical Resources


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index