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The war developed into a last try by the Ainu to keep their political independence and regain control over the terms of their trade relations with the Yamato people. According to scholar Brett Walker: [1] The war of Shakushain stands out as a watershed event in the history of the conquest of Ezo. Shakushain exploded onto the scene as a ...
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.
Koshamain's War (コシャマインの戦い, Koshamain no tatakai) was an armed struggle between the Ainu and Wajin that took place on the Oshima Peninsula of southern Hokkaidō, Japan, in 1457. Escalating out of a dispute over the purchase of a sword, Koshamain and his followers sacked twelve forts in southern Ezo ( 道南十二館 ) , before ...
Ainu rebellion may refer to several wars between the Ainu and Wajin peoples in Japanese history: Koshamain's War ...
As a result, many Ainu today are indistinguishable from their Japanese neighbors, but some Ainu-Japanese are interested in traditional Ainu culture. [citation needed] For example, Oki, born as the child of an Ainu father and a Japanese mother, became a musician who plays the traditional Ainu instrument, the tonkori. [65]
The last serious Ainu rebellion was the Menashi-Kunashir rebellion in 1789. In 1790, Kakizaki Hakyō painted the Ishūretsuzō, a series of portraits of Ainu chiefs, in order to prove to the Japanese populace that the Matsumae were capable of controlling the northern borders and the Ainu [citation needed]. The 12 paintings of Ainu chiefs were ...
The Fusetsu no Gunzo, literally the Wind and Snow Group, is a bronze monument produced by the Japanese sculptors Shin Hongo and Meiji Honda located in Tokiwa Park in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. It depicts four Japanese colonists surrounding an elderly Ainu and was a project marking the 80th anniversary of the city and the 100th anniversary of Hokkaido ...
The domain of the Oshu-Fujiwara clan and other military lords in Japan (1183) The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏 Ōshū Fujiwara-shi ) were a Japanese noble family that ruled the Tōhoku region (the northeast of Honshū ) of Japan during the 12th century as their own realm.