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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 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 is now Shinhidaka, Hokkaidō. 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.
Hokkaidō Ainu (the predominant community of Ainu in the world today): A Japanese census in 1916 returned 13,557 pure-blooded Ainu in addition to 4,550 multiracial individuals. [205] A 2017 survey says the Ainu population in Hokkaido is about 13,000. It decreased sharply from 24,000 in 2006. [204] 13,000 2017 Tokyo Ainu Tokyo
Ainu rebellion may refer to several wars between the Ainu and Wajin peoples in Japanese history: Koshamain's War ...
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]
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 ...
During the 1990s Ukaji began studying embroidery. In 1996, she went back to Hokkaido to study traditional Ainu designs and incorporate them in her work. [1] Her work is typically of Ainu legends, which she sews on to kimono fabric like a tapestry. She calls her style "kofu-e" or "old cloth pictures". [2]
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.