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  2. Emishi - Wikipedia

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    The Emishi (), also called Ebisu and Ezo, were a people who lived in parts of northern Honshū in present-day Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.. The first mention of the Emishi in literature that can be corroborated with outside sources dates to the 5th century AD, [citation needed] in which they are referred to as máorén (毛人—"hairy people") in Chinese records.

  3. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    From the mid-Heian period onward, Emishi who did not fall under the governance of the Yamato Kingship were singled out as northern Emishi. They began to be referred to as "Ezo" (Emishi). The first written reference to "Ezo", which is thought to be Ainu, can be found in Suwa Daimyōjin Ekotoba, which was written in 1356. Indeed, Ainu have lived ...

  4. Ezo - Wikipedia

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    Ezo (蝦夷) (also spelled Yezo or Yeso) [1] is the Japanese term historically used to refer to the people and the lands to the northeast of the Japanese island of Honshu. [2] This included the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, [3][4][5][6] which changed its name from "Ezo" to "Hokkaidō" in 1869, [7] and sometimes included Sakhalin and the ...

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    As humans deal with corrupted gods and demons mixed into the struggle, the last prince of the Emishi tribe must figure out how to stop the bloodshed. Watch on Max. See the original post on Youtube.

  6. Ainu culture - Wikipedia

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    The term "Ainu culture" has two meanings. One is an anthropological perspective, referring to the cultural forms held by the Ainu people as an ethnic group, which includes both the culture held or created by the modern Ainu and the culture of their ancestors. The other usage, from an archeological perspective, refers to the cultural forms ...

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    Here's the full list of returning cast members: Michael Che. Mikey Day. Andrew Dismukes. Chloe Fineman. Heidi Gardner. Marcello Hernández. James Austin Johnson. Colin Jost.

  8. Menasunkur Ainu - Wikipedia

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    Menasunkur Ainu. The Menasunkur Ainu ( Katakana: メナシクル) are an Ainu subgroup living on the eastern Hokkaido coast near Shizunai. Shakushain, the leader of the Menasunkur Ainu, led the Shakushain Revolts, the first large-scale attempt by the Ainu to dislodge the encroaching Japanese onto Hokkaido. The meaning of menas-un-kur is "the ...

  9. Hokkaido - Wikipedia

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    Ainu Japanese. The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). It has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (to the west of the island), the Sea of Okhotsk (to the north), and the Pacific Ocean (to the east). The center of the island is mountainous, with volcanic plateaux.