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Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present.Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation.
The Ainu culture may be better described as an "Ainu cultural complex", taking into account the regional variable subgroups of Ainu peoples. While the Ainu can be considered a continuation of the indigenous Jomon culture, they also display links to surrounding cultures, pointing to a larger cultural complex flourishing around the Sea of Okhotsk .
Pages in category "Ainu culture" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In general, however, they are considered to be shorter in length in comparison to other types of oral genres in the Ainu culture. [9] Some yukar contradict each other, assigning the same events to different deities or heroes; this is primarily a result of the Ainu culture's organization into small, relatively isolated groups. [10]
Ohaw, traditional Ainu soup. Ainu cuisine is the cuisine of the ethnic Ainu in Japan and Russia.The cuisine differs markedly from that of the majority Yamato people of Japan.Raw meat like sashimi, for example, is rarely served in Ainu cuisine, which instead uses methods such as boiling, roasting and curing to prepare meat.
Ainu people partaking in singing and ceremonial round dance. Ainu music is the musical tradition of the Ainu people of northern Japan. Ainu people have no indigenous system of writing, and so have traditionally inherited the folklore and the laws of their culture orally, often through music.
Some anthropologists of the 19th and 20th centuries believed that the korpokkur were in fact a "race that predated the Ainu".Arnold Henry Savage Landor proposed a theory about the indigenous people of Hokkaido, which suggested that the Ainu, migrating from the north, overtook and displaced an earlier population known as the Koro-pok-kuru.
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]