A report on Ainu people
The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Yamato Japanese and Russians.
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Caucasian race
0 linksObsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.
Obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.
Carleton S. Coon (1939) included the populations native to all of Central and Northern Asia, including the Ainu people, under the Caucasoid label.
Sapanpe
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The sapanpe (Ainu/Japanese: サパンペ) is a ritual crown worn by adult men during traditional Ainu ceremonies.
Ainu Association of Hokkaido
0 linksThe Hokkaido Utari Association (北海道ウタリ協会) is an umbrella group of which most Hokkaidō Ainu and some other Ainu are members.
National Ainu Museum
0 linksMuseum located in Shiraoi, Hokkaidō, Japan.
Museum located in Shiraoi, Hokkaidō, Japan.
The museum's mission is "to promote a proper understanding and awareness of Ainu history and culture in Japan and elsewhere out of respect for the dignity of the indigenous Ainu people, while contributing to the creation and development of new aspects of Ainu culture".
Hokkaido wolf
1 linksExtinct subspecies of gray wolf that once inhabited coastal north-east Asia.
Extinct subspecies of gray wolf that once inhabited coastal north-east Asia.
Ezo is a Japanese word meaning "foreigner" and referred to the historical lands of the Ainu people to the north of Honshu, which the Japanese named Ezo-chi.
Language revitalization
1 linksAttempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one.
Attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one.
The Ainu language of the indigenous Ainu people of northern Japan is currently moribund, but efforts are underway to revive it.
Iomante
1 linksIomante (イオマンテ), sometimes written as Iyomante (イヨマンテ), is an Ainu ceremony in which a brown bear is sacrificed.
Golden Kamuy
1 linksJapanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda.
Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda.
The story follows Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the early twentieth-century Russo-Japanese War, and his quest to find a huge fortune of gold of the Ainu people, helped by a young Ainu girl named Asirpa.