Posted on 06/01/2024 2:44:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
🎥 Who are the indigenous Ainu people of Japan, where did they come from, what do they look like, and where do they stand in the world today? 🇯🇵
Welcome to our deep dive into the fascinating world of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. In this video, we explore the unique aspects of Ainu culture, from their ancient history to their contemporary resurgence…
00:26 - 🌿 Indigenous Heritage: Explore the history of the Ainu, the original inhabitants of Hokkaido, and their presence in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.
01:54 - 📜 Unique Language: Discover the endangered Ainu language, distinct from other language families, with a dwindling number of fluent speakers.
03:13 - 👘 Distinctive Clothing: Admire the intricate patterns and embroidery of traditional Ainu clothing, crafted from elm tree bark.
04:43 - 🗣️ Oral Literature: Experience the 'yukar', the Ainu's rich oral literature tradition of epic sagas, recited in a unique rhythmic and singing style.
06:21 - 🌌 Spiritual Beliefs: Explore Ainu animism, where spirits known as "kamuy" are believed to inhabit everything, from animals to inanimate objects.
07:55 - 🖌️ Unique Tattoos: Learn about the tattoo culture among Ainu women, a tradition involving facial tattoos as a rite of passage and beauty symbol.
09:24 - 🐻 Bear Worship: Learn about 'Iomante', the sacred Ainu bear-worshipping ritual involving the raising and sacrificing of a bear to honor its spirit.
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Not the Beach Episodes. That is just Japanese.
Ainu that
Bathing monkeys in the Hot Springs
My mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was pure Ainu. She died before I was born, but we have a picture of her.
My mother’s mother’s mother’s father, whose last name was Siemsen, was the Danish consul in Vladivostok.
Their child, my mother’s mother’s mother was born in 1889, was very ashamed of the fact that she was half Ainu. She moved from Russia to China at the time of the Bolshevik revolution, and from China to America at the time of the Chinese Communist takeover. In America, she lived in a large (but partially unfinished) house on the banks of the Russian River in Rio Nido, California.
I remember her, and the house she lived in, vividly. She doted on her grandkids, especially me. She is buried at Fort Ross in California.
Seen a lot of references to Ainu in Manga and Anime.
I'm old enough to remember my father's grandmother. Born in Guilford County, North Carolina in 1880. She passed away in 1979. I was five. Many years later it finally dawned on me that I had met someone in my family who knew veterans from the Civil War, and had lived to see not just the first powered air flight but also man on the moon.
"The old days" aren't really that far away from us.
what a interesting story
would love to hear more
I wonder if there’s any country on earth without an indigenous people?
Technically they are all imports from Ireland and Scandinavia.
No native people at all.
The last place on earth to be settled. That we know of.
Just about anyone born in 1980 ran into someone from the 1800s, and people who were born before 1980, well, think about the old people you met or who held you or who yelled at you when you were a kid.
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Thanks for that interesting reply! I’ve never read up on Iceland. Rabbit hole on tomorrow’s agenda.
Iceland is the only place we can be fairly confident of. At least as a major piece of land. There is probably some bit of land that is underwater except about four times a year when there is a really low tide but since no one could live there it does not count. At least in my book. (Just 9.95 at your local book store!)
When I lived in Japan, the Japanese didn’t like the mountain people who were not the same ugly;) Funny to hear them talk about Hairy Thick People - the Snaggle Toothed People of Plains were fierce warriors.
Falklands.
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