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Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present. Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people , partly due to cultural assimilation .
Ainu people in front of a traditional building in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. On March 27, 1997, the Sapporo District Court decided a landmark case that, for the first time in Japanese history, recognized the right of the Ainu people to enjoy their distinct culture and traditions.
Ohaw, traditional Ainu soup. 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 meat like sashimi, for example, is rarely served in Ainu cuisine, which instead uses methods such as boiling, roasting and curing to prepare meat.
Ainu people partaking in singing and ceremonial round dance. 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 inherited the folklore and the laws of their culture orally, often through music.
Ainu were Indigenous people from the Hokkaido, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, who had their own language and distinctive culture before they were forced to assimilate, according to local reports ...
A kamuy (Ainu: カムィ; Japanese: カムイ, romanized: kamui) is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy, passed down through oral traditions and rituals.
Ainu people live in nature and use natural materials. They had their own culture which was different in Japanese culture at the moment. Particularly, the Ainu ethnic focused on the connection of Gods called Kamuy (カムイ) which control nature and animals and they did a ritual performed with singing and dancing to show their appreciation of Gods and connect to them. [5]
The Okhotsk people were likely depicted as the repunkur ("people of the sea") in Ainu oral traditions. Donald L. Philippi states that, at the same time the stories frequently mention wars between the repunkur and the yaunkur ("people of the land", i.e. the Ainu themselves), or rather between the hero Poiyaunpe and the repunkur, Ainu heroes ...