Sapporo - Shiraoi - Porotokotan - Hokkaido The Ainu people The Shiraoi Ainu Museum (アイヌ民族博物館, Ainu Minzoku Hakubutsukan) is one of the country's best museums about the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. The open air museum, which is also commonly known as Porotokotan (meaning large lakeside village in the Ainu language), is a replica village consisting of five thatched houses along the shore of Lake Poroto. Each of the houses at Porotokotan demonstrates different aspects of Ainu culture and lifestyle. One of the larger houses holds a free, hourly performance (starting 15 minutes after the hour) with traditional Ainu folk dances, songs and mouth harp demonstrations. One of these folk dances, which is performed to send off the spirits of dead bears, was designated a UNESCO intangible cultural property in 2009. www.japan-guide.com/e/e5375.html
They are older than the Egyptians or Sumerians. Their women made tattoos resembling the Joker’s smile and their men had enormous beards. At the same time, they are one of the most persecuted people in the world. Their existence has been denied for several centuries now.
Vintage Portraits of the Ainu women of Japan with Tattooed lips
I discovered Ainu Textiles on my trip to Hokkaido. Here's a bit more about these powerful, bold fabrics and the people that made them.
Noboribetsu Hokkaido Japan Photo by Milt Kessler More Photos at asachitose.com/ChHokPhotoindex.html
Vintage Portraits of the Ainu women of Japan with Tattooed lips
Ainu creation folklore and cloud symbolism According to Ainu mythic poetry, the world was created when oil floating in the ocean rose like a flame and became the sky. What was left turned into land…
Ainu Japanese girl from the island of Hokkaido, possibly in Asahigawa in 1945. I don't know her name.
Photographer Laura Liverani collaborated with members of Japan’s indigenous Ainu community for this exhibition called Portraits of Today’s Japan, at the Japan Foundation until 21 June
The Ainu are a Japanese indigenous people living mainly in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan. They have lived for centuries in the north of Japan, not only in Hokkaido but also in…
Hi! My name is Alexander Khimushin. Nine years ago I packed my backpack to see the world and have been globe-trotting ever since visited 84 countries. While travelling the world, I realized that people are the most amazing part of it.
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Photographer SAWAMARU POKIRU - Ainu teachings - People - Other - BRONZE - One Eyeland Photography Awards 2021
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For years, photographer Laura Liverani documented the long-oppressed, little-known Ainu culture.
The Ainu are a group of people in northern Japan whose traditional life was based on a hunting, fishing and plant-gathering economy; the word ainu means "man". Only about 18,000 Ainu now live on Hokkaidō, the northernmost island of Japan, but the population was much larger in the past and their…
Discover a collection of images and information on the amazing aesthetics of the indigenous people of Japan, the Ainu people.
In a first for Japan, a bill to legally recognize the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan is about to be submitted to the Diet.
The Ainu, also known as Aynu, are an indigenous people of Japan and Eastern Russia. According to recent research, the Ainu people originated from a merger
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Two Ainu hunters armed with bow and ancient musket, hunting in melting spring snow, Shiraoi, Japan, 1946.
Japan. The natives and the conquerors. Ainu and Japanese. Combat and fencing armor. - Various Weapons. Soldiers, Craftsmen, Coolis.
Ainu Japanese girl from the island of Hokkaido, possibly in Asahigawa in 1945. I don't know her name.
A modern day Ainu man, descended from the Jomon. Every DNA study of these people groups thm with Asians, even though they have a very Caucasian skull shape. It seems that the Jomon made it into th…
The sacred land of the Kamikawa Ainu in Hokkaido offers a peek into the way of life of Japan’s original people.
