Title:
Japan: 'Ainu Man', from Ezo Shima Kikan< / i> ('Unusual Views of Ezo [Hokkaido] '), painted handscroll, Hata Awagimaro (1764-1808),1799
Caption:
The Ezo Shima Kikan by Hata Awagimaro, completed in Kansei 11 (1799) is considered the most notable work depicting the contemporaneous lives of the Ainu.
. The Ainu or in historical Japanese texts Ezo, are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido, and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands).
Credit:
Album / Universal Images Group / Pictures From History
Image size:
4500 x 4115 px | 53.0 MB
Print size:
38.1 x 34.8 cm | 15.0 x 13.7 in (300 dpi)
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