Imekanu (イメカヌ, November 10, 1875 – April 6, 1961), also known by her Japanese name Kannari Matsu (金成 マツ), was an Ainu missionary and epic poet. Along...
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aunt Imekanu in Chikabumi, on the outskirts of Asahikawa, when she was six years old, presumably to lessen the financial burden on her parents. Imekanu lived...
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A picture of Imekanu, right, with her niece Yukie Chiri, a famous Ainu Japanese transcriber and translator of Ainu epic tales. (1922)...
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grandmother performed. She compiled the historical chants from her aunt Imekanu in a book titled Ainu shin'yoshu. The Ainu have rituals in which they "send...
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2007 of the project to translate and transcribe the yukar compilations of Imekanu, Kannari Matsu Notebooks (金成マツノート, Kan-nari Matsu Nōto), which consists...
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Oral Culture アイヌ口承文芸 Ainu kōshō bungei passim See Yukar, Kutune Shirka, Imekanu, Chiri Yukie (pictured) 42°33′41″N 141°22′01″E / 42.561347°N 141.366885°E...
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Nabesawa Wakarpa, and published this version together with Imekanu's version in 1932. Imekanu's transcription in original Ainu is a vital specimen of the...
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lawyer in 1877 Inagaki Manjirō - Cambridge University graduate and diplomat Imekanu - Ainu Yukar poet who worked with John Batchelor Kazuo Ishiguro - Famous...
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Religious Tract Society. pp. 603. Retrieved 1 March 2012. Akkorokamui Imekanu Frédéric, Louis (2005). "Ainu". Japan Encyclopedia. Translated by Roth...
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Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. His older sister is Yukie Chiri and his aunt is Imekanu. Though they were both native Ainu speakers, Chiri was not. He was taught...
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