Japan: 'The Ainu Bear-Killing Ritual', from Ezo Shima Kikan< / i> ('Unusual Views of Ezo [Hokkaido] '), painted handscroll, Hata Awagimaro (1764-1808), c. 1840
Japan: 'The Ainu Bear-Killing Ritual', from Ezo Shima Kikan< / i> ('Unusual Views of Ezo [Hokkaido] '), painted handscroll, Hata Awagimaro (1764-1808), c. 1840
This picture scroll is a copy of selected sections of the Ezo Shima Kikan (Unusual Views of the Island of Ezo [Hokkaido]) by Hata Awagimaro, completed in Kansei 11 (1799) and 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).
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