What many people who know about Japan might not even be aware of, is the fact that the East Asian country is home to a group of people called the Ainu, and this book's purpose is to help educate those interested in Japan's history in learning that all there's needed to know about such a lesser-known, but fascinating Japanese people who are of a very different race and ethnicity in contrast to the most well-known people who inhabit all of Japan in regards to Japanese history.

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ecolinguistics capable of integrating with concepts of embodied cognition, it is possible to recognise a broad range of connections with a language from which an individual or community has become estranged.Using the Ainu of Japan as an example and comparator, this book reviews historical and contemporary suppression of ...

"Alone with the Hairy Ainu" by Arnold Henry Savage Landor is a captivating exploration of the Ainu people, an indigenous group from Japan. Landor, an adventurous traveler and writer, immerses himself in their culture, documenting their customs, beliefs, and daily life. His vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes provide readers with a unique perspective on the Ainu, who have often been marginalized in history. The book serves as both a travelogue and an anthropological study, highlightin...

Finalist Award Winner at the 2011 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS® *** In a long-ago time when elves, dwarves, druids, and magical creatures lived on Earth, Duida, the Elven Princess, and the chosen one embarks on a fantastic quest to awaken the Ainu and save the Elven kingdom from the forces of evil. The most incredible spiritual adventure of all times will unfold before you, revealing profound truths about the Nature of Reality and the Path of Self-transformation toward full Enligh...

Il viaggio emozionante di una madre e di sua figlia alla scoperta degli Ainu, un popolo indigeno del Giappone, a lungo dimenticato ed emarginato. Roxana ci porta con sé in questa avventura di scoperta e rinascita, offrendoci un ritratto intimo e profondo di questo popolo misterioso e delle discriminazioni che hanno subito. Un'opera unica nel suo genere che invita alla riflessione e all'azione per migliorare noi stessi e il mondo.

This book is about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, living in and around Tokyo; it is, therefore, about what has been pushed to the margins of history. Customarily, anthropologists and public officials have represented Ainu issues and political affairs as limited to rural pockets of Hokkaido. Today, however, a significant proportion of the Ainu people live in and around major cities on the main island of Honshu, particularly Tokyo. Based on extensive original ethnographic research...

An insightful look into the culture, religion, and magic of the native people of Japan: the Ainu.John Batchelor gives a first-hand account of the Ainu people who are indigenous to the Northern Japanese island Hokkaido. Having been sent as a Christian missionary to the community, Batchelor details the Ainu religion and culture. He describes their animistic rituals and their belief that all things, including nature, animals, and objects, possess a godly spirit. First...

Ainu Creed and Cult was the first detailed account of the Ainu to be written by either a westerner or a Japanese. In this book, Munro's object in writing it was not only to give an account of his careful observations of the people and their customs, but also to demonstrate to the world at large that the Ainu had an independent culture that deserved respect and preservation.

First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist Pierre Naert, she decided to investigate further the Ainu people and their integration into the Japanese nation state.

O povo Ainu habita o extremo norte do Japão, na ilha de Hokkaido. Nesta coletânea, três contos sobre mulheres ainu que se casaram com kamuy (divindades), e que agora trazem novos costumes para seus povos. Contos registrados entre o final do século XIX e século XX, nas regiões de Hokkaido e Sacalinas.

Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist, born in Florence. Landor then went to Vancouver where, aged 27 in 1889, he embarked for Yokohama, Japan. In the course of this visit to Japan made a journey to the largely unexplored Island of Hokkaido, where he studied the customs of the indigenous Ainu people. He made several paintings and subsequently wrote Alone with the Hairy Ainu (1893).

The following specimens of Ainu folk-lore form a small portion of matter which the writer has himself collected, from time to time, during a period of nearly six years. They are merely specimens. Many other examples might be given. But it is presumed that the following half-dozen samples will be fully sufficient to illustrate the manner in which this crude race of men, in the absence of books, keep their legends, fables, and traditions alive. It is not pretended that all such legends are i...