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An Ainu woman from Hokkaido, c. 1930. Ainu women traditionally wear matanpushi, embroidered headbands, and ninkari, metal earrings with balls. Matanpushi and ninkari were originally also worn by men. Furthermore, aprons called maidari are now part of women's formal clothes. However, some old documents state that men wore maidari.
It was led by Ainu chieftain Shakushain against the Matsumae clan, who represented Japanese trading and governmental interests in the area of Hokkaidō, then controlled by the Japanese (Yamato people). The war began as a fight for resources between Shakushain's people and a rival Ainu clan in the Shibuchari River (Shizunai River) basin of what ...
Seino Araida [1] was born on 4 April 1917 in Shizunai, Hokkaido, [2] [3] and moved to Mukawa, Hokkaido in 1919. [3] [4] Since her mother was visually impaired, she began helping with farmwork as a young child. [4]
The Ainu are a Paleo-Mongoloid people native to Hokkaido, the most northerly main island of the Japanese archipelago, as well as to the Russo-Siberian island of Sakhalin. They were the original population of Japan who were pushed north by the arrival from Korea of the people from whom the vast majority of today’s Japanese population is descended.
The Menashi-Kunashir rebellion or war (クナシリ・メナシの戦い, Kunashiri Menashi no tatakai) or Menashi-Kunashir battle took place in 1789 between the Ainu and the Wajin (also called the Yamato people, i.e. the ethnic Japanese) on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Northeastern Hokkaido.
The matanpushi (Ainu/Japanese: マタンプシ) is a traditional garment worn by the Ainu people of Japan. [1] Complementing the sapanpe - which is worn by men - the matanpushi is usually worn by women in modern Ainu ceremonies, although originally it was a common facet of Ainu fashion among men. [2]
A woman with tattoos around her mouth. She wears ninkali (ear rings) in her ears, a lektumpe (necklace) around her neck, and a tamasai (necklace) down her neck Traditional tattoo patterns of Ainu women Traditional tattoo patterns of Ainu women, with regional differences. Tattoos were an important symbol of the gods associated with the belief in ...
Hasinaw-uk-kamuy is a deity of great importance to the Ainu, who historically subsisted largely on hunting, fishing, and gathering. She was born from the fire-producing drill, and is sometimes said to be the sister of Kamuy-huci, the hearth goddess, or of Shiramba Kamuy, god of vegetation. Hunters worshipped her to assure a successful hunt, and ...