Ryukyu ethnic groups, the Ainu people are one of the primary historic ethnic groups of Japan. Official surveys of the known Ainu population in Hokkaido received...

Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ, aynu itak), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (Japanese: 北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the...

Ainu culture refers to the traditions of the Ainu people, dating back to around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present. Today, most Ainu...

family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including...

The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai. The Russian Ainu people (Aine; Russian:...

Look up Ainu or ainu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ainu or Aynu may refer to: Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far...

are the closest Asian relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as of the Ainu people, being the descendants of settlers who neither crossed...

Ainu is an extinct Ainu language, or perhaps several Ainu languages, that was or were spoken on the island of Sakhalin, now part of Russia. The Ainu of...

either the Epi-Jōmon tribes of Japan which became the ancestors of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, or pre-Yamato Japanese migrants. It has been posited that...

archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people. In recent decades, there...

Ainu Mosir (Ainu: アイヌモシㇼ, lit. 'the land of the Ainu; Hokkaido') is a 2020 Japanese drama film directed by Takeshi Fukunaga. The film follows a young Ainu...

is the Ainu language, which is spoken by the Ainu people, who are the indigenous people of the island. The Ainu languages, of which Hokkaidō Ainu is the...

Japanese Empire, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous peoples and Micronesians) who were...

are more admixed with Asian agricultural continental people (from the Korean Peninsula) than the Ainu and the Ryukyuans, with major admixture occurring in...

from c. 15% among modern Japanese people, to c. 30% among Ryukyuan people, and up to c. 75% among modern Ainu people, and at lower frequency among surrounding...

ink (also called zumi); tattooing practiced by both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan people uses ink derived from the indigo plant. It is a painful and...

phenomena. As result of assimilation, most of the Ainu people are Japanese speakers and do not speak the Ainu language. The literature now exists in forms...

at 21. Ainu languages are spoken on Sakhalin, Hokkaido, the Kurils, and on the Kamchatka Peninsula, as well as in the Amur region. Today, Ainu is nearly...

The Ainu Revolution Theory was a left-wing political concept in 1970s Japan, notably advanced by thinker Ota Ryu. It posited that the Ainu people, perceived...

The Sumunkur Ainu (Katakana: スムンクㇽ, literally "west in people", i.e. "Western people") is the name of the Ainu subgroup living along the southern coast...

supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy, passed down through oral traditions...

related to the Ainu people of today. Japanese sources that include an etymology describe Ezo as probably originally a borrowing from the Ainu word enciw meaning...

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...

Okhotsk culture. The Ainu appear genetically most closely related to the Jōmon period peoples of Japan. The genetic makeup of the Ainu represents a "deep...

pronounced [hokkaꜜidoː] , lit. 'Northern Sea Circuit; Ainu: Ainu Mosir, ' or 'Land of the Ainu') is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the...

ethnic Japanese settlers. Many indigenous people would later return to the area. According to "Modern Ainu: The Romance of Ethnic Migration" (現代のアイヌ :...

War, and his quest to find a huge fortune of gold of the Ainu people, helped by a young Ainu girl named Asirpa. The movie received a sequel series titled...

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...

A. V. (1964). "The Nikvhi". The Peoples of Siberia. Chicago: The University of Chicago. Reid, Anne (2002). "The Ainu, Nivkh, and Uilta". The Shaman's...

Asuka period. Other historical ethnic groups have included the Ainu, the Ryukyuan people, the Emishi, and the Hayato; some of whom were dispersed or absorbed...