CEAS Lecture Series David Howell

How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about NineteenthCentury Japan April 12, 2018 Joseph Regenstein Library Room 122 1100 E 57th St Chicago, IL 60637 Excrement was a hot commodity in the cities of nineteenthcentury Japan. The widespread use of night soil as an organic fertilizer meant that residents of cities such as Tokyo and Osaka could sell their waste rather than simply dispose of it. Thanks to this trade, pretwentiethcentury cities Japanese cities enjoy a reputation as having be