Ainu - History of the Indigenous people of Japan DOCUMENTARY

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    The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations and history of Japan continues with an episode on the history of Ainu - the indigenous people of the Japanese islands. In this video, we will learn about their culture, society, religion, economic activity, traditions, as well as their struggle against the Japanese Empire.
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  2 роки тому +264

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    • @gursimarsingh5505
      @gursimarsingh5505 2 роки тому +9

      Please make one video on sikh empire

    • @Travellingsoul8
      @Travellingsoul8 2 роки тому +4

      Please make a video on the imperial chola empire who ruled most of the southeast asia

    • @user-tx2ox6lw7s
      @user-tx2ox6lw7s 2 роки тому +3

      Please make a video about Bengal Sultanate

    • @hungle-is6cc
      @hungle-is6cc 2 роки тому +2

      Do a video about the yue people , please.

    • @SahnouneKhaled
      @SahnouneKhaled 2 роки тому +2

      @@yashadhiya2397 لل

  • @LitD
    @LitD 2 роки тому +4476

    Fun fact: Most of what we know about the Ainu, including recordings of their language, is the result of the work of Bronislaw Pilsudski, brother of the better known Jozef Pilsudski. He was exiled to Russia's far east for anti-Russian activities but eventualy recieved a grant to study the indigenous peoples which was cut short by the Russo-Japanese war.

    • @szczepan4737
      @szczepan4737 2 роки тому +477

      He also married Ainu princess, lucky guy.

    • @comradepolarbear6920
      @comradepolarbear6920 2 роки тому +199

      Cool dude. Drank coconuts with an African tribe

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 2 роки тому +85

      Shame his brother wasn't so good

    • @Mrkabrat
      @Mrkabrat 2 роки тому +42

      Fascinating, almost sounds like a novel!

    • @szczepan4737
      @szczepan4737 2 роки тому +352

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 You mean Józef? Becoming a national hero of Poland after restoring Polish independence and saving Europe from Soviet invasion in 1920 is pretty amazing too. Crazy how much those brothers achieved in their lifetime.

  • @TrinityShoji
    @TrinityShoji 2 роки тому +2358

    My mom (San-sei, Japanese American) taught me who the Ainu were when I was young. Her basic description of them was that they were "like the Native Americans, but in Japan"

    • @MilkJugA_
      @MilkJugA_ 2 роки тому +438

      It's indeed not a wrong description. Indiginous peoples of north america, scandinavia and asia all had a comparable tribal structure, and were overran by expansion by more hierarchical and centralized states

    • @saiien2
      @saiien2 2 роки тому +183

      Well she was right we can say. They were the first inhabitants of northern Japan before "modern" Japanese people came from other parts of north-east Asia.

    • @18890426
      @18890426 2 роки тому +61

      The Native Americans of Japan? Give me a break
      There were also Jomon people in Japan and Jomons and Ainu are different ethnicities.
      Please don't confuse them.
      That's also an insult to Ainu.

    • @saiien2
      @saiien2 2 роки тому +277

      @@18890426 Not Native Americans. He said that their role was similar to Native americans

    • @Mynipplesmychoice
      @Mynipplesmychoice 2 роки тому +48

      New magical light brown skinned people for me to worship and save! I’m excited and I can’t hide it.

  • @Akira-Ainu_Nitai
    @Akira-Ainu_Nitai 2 роки тому +218

    Ainu legends state the true Ainu home is a land of “terrible cold and no tree’s”. Many interpret this as Siberia. The Ainu language was also used early on for Russian and Japanese to communicate. Less than 100 Ainu speakers are around today but you can still get Ainu-English-Japanese dictionaries to help revive it. I am on this mission myself, since my great grandfather was Ainu.

    • @sushruttewari144
      @sushruttewari144 11 місяців тому +11

      Best of luck! I hope you succeed, my friend !!

    • @Leste-_-
      @Leste-_- 9 місяців тому +7

      A very meaningful mission! Hope u can make a huge difference bro!

    • @imperialjapaneseguy7799
      @imperialjapaneseguy7799 5 місяців тому +5

      they were just some barbarians, not worth the effort

    • @truthseeker-nv6ny
      @truthseeker-nv6ny Місяць тому +1

      ​@Nagin-zt6sc look at his user. He's an imperial Japanese guy so makes sense he'd say that

    • @truthseeker-nv6ny
      @truthseeker-nv6ny Місяць тому +2

      ​@imperialjapaneseguy7799 makes sense you'd say that as an imperial Japanese guy

  • @DP-qp8md
    @DP-qp8md 2 роки тому +822

    "Who would bother with invading some fogy islands on the edge of the world, inhabited by hairy sevages"
    Caesar: excuse me?

    • @lyonvensa
      @lyonvensa 2 роки тому +28

      I was thinking exactly about Caesar too lol. Kings and Generals is always sneaky like that.

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 2 роки тому +2

      hahahaha

    • @spoolofflarn8760
      @spoolofflarn8760 2 роки тому +1

      HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH OH MY GOD WOW

    • @Ensensu2
      @Ensensu2 2 роки тому +8

      Invading the edge of the world every day, that's the SPQR way.

    • @immortalnightbody
      @immortalnightbody 2 роки тому +1

      @@tyrlant2189 --- seriously. not the first time I've heard this and I know this dude just remixed the original comment lmao

  • @ace1776
    @ace1776 2 роки тому +2439

    Bear in heaven telling spirits:
    “ They were pious, devoted, wonderful people. Up until the time they murdered me!”

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 роки тому +114

      Not a wise religious practice for maintaining local bear populations....

    • @MasterMalrubius
      @MasterMalrubius 2 роки тому +174

      Hey bear have some breast milk.
      Thank you!
      Have some delicious food.
      Thank you!
      WTF?!

    • @icantimagineagoodname4666
      @icantimagineagoodname4666 2 роки тому +62

      @@robwalsh9843 actually, as they could need bears for traditional religious activities, they could look for the preservarion of fhe species

    • @Blalack77
      @Blalack77 2 роки тому +2

      Kind of how I was thinking about it lol...

    • @a.e.9821
      @a.e.9821 2 роки тому +23

      @@robwalsh9843 there should not be enough people that killing one bear a year per tribe puts them at risk of extinction. Overpopulation is a terrible issue.

  • @the_feedle
    @the_feedle 2 роки тому +1965

    In the movie "Princess Mononoke", the main caracter and the inhabitants of his village are Emishi

    • @lampad4549
      @lampad4549 2 роки тому +13

      Im sure thats not true.

    • @the_feedle
      @the_feedle 2 роки тому +467

      @@lampad4549 in the movie, the buddhist monk says to the main character: "I know you are an Emishi and that the emperor destroyed/chased your tribe, but don't worry, I won't tell anyone". They may be variation of terms among the different translations

    • @TheRelen222
      @TheRelen222 2 роки тому +132

      Yes, love that movie. I can't figure out why they made the main character beardless though, I'm just assuming he was too young.

    • @mysticdragonwolf89
      @mysticdragonwolf89 2 роки тому +140

      @@TheRelen222 he’s 15-17 too young to have grown a beard - I swear he looks younger.

    • @TheRelen222
      @TheRelen222 2 роки тому +92

      @@mysticdragonwolf89 Yep, the funny thing is that I could grow a decent beard myself at that age, and the Ainu are supposed to be some of the hairiest people in the world. Japan seems to idealize youth though, especially in its media, so it doesn't surprise me.

  • @HeinouslyAnus777
    @HeinouslyAnus777 2 роки тому +150

    As an indigenous Cree Native man from Canada. I really appreciate and connect to the history of the Ainu and the emishi people of Emishi

    • @santiagoaneyba7483
      @santiagoaneyba7483 9 місяців тому +11

      OMG. Are you really a native Cree? I am going to introduce myself, my name is Santiago, I am a young Anthropology student and I was born in Bolivia, my family has multi-ethnic origins from native Quechuas to Croatian refugees from the first great war, I love history, I love culture, and I find it fascinating to be able to meet a native Cree, in a video about the Ainu People. I would like to know more about you online and try to make a friend. Thank you for reading. ^^

    • @josephfioretti6851
      @josephfioretti6851 7 місяців тому +1

      🤓

    • @Jtworthy1
      @Jtworthy1 3 місяці тому +4

      ​@@josephfioretti6851 Ur in the wrong community to be making fun of ppl for being nerdy

    • @blackouthorus1519
      @blackouthorus1519 2 місяці тому

      ​@@santiagoaneyba7483trust me bro im cree/stony mix we are not that rare lol but also nice to meet you whats your country like ? Cause im canadian and know some of my peoples ways but to learn them you have too bring tobacco poach to elders to learn more about us if you ever intend tp learn of our culture

    • @blackouthorus1519
      @blackouthorus1519 2 місяці тому +2

      Also hey cousin lol

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 2 роки тому +363

    Its crazy how the Tragedy of the Ainu is such a common story for so many peoples from around the world

    • @domenstrmsek5625
      @domenstrmsek5625 2 роки тому +24

      and is not european fault

    • @EmptyMan000
      @EmptyMan000 2 роки тому +56

      Those with ambition and authority will always try to subjugate people seen as lesser or different. It's part of the human condition and it's a source of endless tragedy.

    • @OatmealGrillBlazer
      @OatmealGrillBlazer 2 роки тому +2

      oh my God it's you for the love of God just upload just vienna

    • @charlesballiet7074
      @charlesballiet7074 2 роки тому +1

      its called social Darwinism the cultures that accell at technology and harnessing the power of nature outcompete the people living in hunter gatherer society's

    • @RedRocket4000
      @RedRocket4000 2 роки тому +35

      @@baconoftheark Utterly false they learned it from the Chinese way before then. This saying Empires were not formed until Western Europe got in the game way late so false it's stupid.

  • @Oxtocoatl13
    @Oxtocoatl13 2 роки тому +2830

    My toilet spirit has never rushed to my defense. Times have indeed changed.

    • @cypher4783
      @cypher4783 2 роки тому +80

      calls the plumber. "hurry, hurry! Water every where."

    • @SuperHorsecow
      @SuperHorsecow 2 роки тому +197

      My toilet spirit won't fuckin forgive me after some of the batterings my arse has given it

    • @eponymousarchon7442
      @eponymousarchon7442 2 роки тому +62

      My toilet Spirit has rushed me to the toilet many times.

    • @JohnSmith-tp5vk
      @JohnSmith-tp5vk 2 роки тому +9

      I'm sad and confused my dookie won't stay in the bowl

    • @nirvanic3610
      @nirvanic3610 2 роки тому +6

      Genius

  • @TheVincentVanGogh
    @TheVincentVanGogh 2 роки тому +1219

    As someone who grew up in Northern Japan. We barely had enough knowledge about this, studying about Sengoku Jidai which we weren't even that much part of it.

    • @Praisestoallah7
      @Praisestoallah7 2 роки тому +71

      modern japanese are colonizers

    • @PSL416
      @PSL416 2 роки тому +90

      @@Praisestoallah7 Ainus colonized Sakhalin when there was people already there. What’s your point?

    • @Praisestoallah7
      @Praisestoallah7 2 роки тому +12

      @@PSL416 did they colonize or simply integrate with each other?

    • @rishuyadav4410
      @rishuyadav4410 2 роки тому +123

      @@Praisestoallah7 Modern Japanese "Colonised" Ainus.
      Ainus "simply integrated" with eachother.
      I don't understand why people choose to be hypocrite?

    • @VicmundLim
      @VicmundLim 2 роки тому +1

      @@rishuyadav4410 so did Kashmiri integrated with modern Indian

  • @DoctorWortspieler
    @DoctorWortspieler 2 роки тому +322

    The first time I learned about the Ainu was when reading "Fullmetal Alchemist." While not mentioned by name in the manga, there are an ethnic minority of people who was conquered by a foreign power and later subjected to attempted genocide; I would later learn that the author based this on the history of the Ainu.

    • @kris1123259
      @kris1123259 2 роки тому +27

      You mean the ishvalians ?

    • @corv1d770
      @corv1d770 2 роки тому +40

      @@kris1123259 the ishvalans are symbolic of the Ainu because Hiromu Arakawa (the author of Fullmetal) is of Ainu descent if I'm recalling correctly. Take that with a grain of salt, but I do know she's spoken on the ishvalans being representative of the genocide of the ainu

    • @RedRocket4000
      @RedRocket4000 2 роки тому +35

      @@corv1d770 But she put a roughly muslim/Hindi/Buddhist spin on it by it being a southern people in Simi desert lands wearing clothing from other Asian and Midwestern people influence. So she was making a global point as well.

    • @corv1d770
      @corv1d770 2 роки тому +18

      @@RedRocket4000 excellent and Accurate point as well, clearly she was condemning colonization and ethnic genocide in general

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому +11

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

  • @michelleburkholder2547
    @michelleburkholder2547 2 роки тому +278

    Lots of similarities to Pacific Northwest Native Americans. Especially their reverence and dependency on salmon.

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 2 роки тому +38

      Yes Native Americans and Ainu share common ancestry and cultures which is why you see similarities between the two groups.

    • @Crowbar6006
      @Crowbar6006 2 роки тому +26

      I'm pretty sure Kennewick man's DNA almost matched Ainu DNA. That's a crazy thought to think how far those people 40k some odd years ago traveled.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 роки тому +7

      I mean that's probably due to the fact that they live in an area where salmon are the main source of food, that seems sorta obvious.

    • @stephenmitchell4393
      @stephenmitchell4393 2 роки тому +3

      @@collin-theonlyandone2299 native Americans can't grow facial hair , if they do they have mixed blood lines

    • @raguelelnaqum
      @raguelelnaqum 2 роки тому +1

      That's no surprise. Ainu live & Have lived as far Yamchatka, and we have records of Tlingit Amerinds visiting & raiding the Kurils

  • @Darkcamera45
    @Darkcamera45 2 роки тому +304

    There are many smaller cultures like this that get dwarfed by their more well known neighbors, glad to see your covering them

    • @gavinoaw
      @gavinoaw 2 роки тому +10

      Yeah, when I first learned about the Ainu I started researching a bit, and found out that e.g. Sri Lanka has tribes of ethnically distinct natives in the island's interior! I was especially surprised about that, since Sri Lanka isn't that big.
      I wonder how many more native minorities like that exist in the world which I have never heard about...

    • @kingpiye7060
      @kingpiye7060 2 роки тому +5

      Hegamony fetishism is pretty cringe i like learning about obscure cultures

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@gavinoawIndonesia and Papua New Guinea and Australia all have lots of obscure tribes especially Melanesian ones like Moluccans,Timorese,West Papuans,etc

  • @Mrkabrat
    @Mrkabrat 2 роки тому +1211

    The manga "Golden Kamui" does show many aspects of the Ainu traditions (mainly because the co-protagonist is an Ainu) and its a good read. Who said learning can't be fun?
    Edit: Also, aren't there still Ainu's in Japan nowadays?
    Edit 2: I wish the Ainu best of luck in their future endeavours, since getting officialy recognized as a separate ethnic group is a big step foward but only the first of many. Aurrera eta beti aurrera!

    • @user-cr3pn7rk2v
      @user-cr3pn7rk2v 2 роки тому +6

      @@marcobonesi6794 What are "real" Ainu?

    • @marcelogoncalvesdocouto7288
      @marcelogoncalvesdocouto7288 2 роки тому +94

      @@user-cr3pn7rk2v I think he meant Ainu people who still hold to their authentic culture (customs, language etc) because most of the Ainu people ended up being culturally assimilated into japanese society (adopted japanese names, only speak japanese and forgot Ainu culture)

    • @stefaniariccardi9008
      @stefaniariccardi9008 2 роки тому +16

      @@user-cr3pn7rk2v I think he means Ainu people that are also culturally Ainu and hasn't been assimilated by Japanese or Russian people

    • @11u510n15t
      @11u510n15t 2 роки тому

      Haha, beat me to it.

    • @user-cr3pn7rk2v
      @user-cr3pn7rk2v 2 роки тому +49

      @@marcobonesi6794 Some parts of Hokkaido such as Hidaka are registered as 37% registered Ainu. So the Ainu identity is far from extinct but the Ainu language and culture has sadly mostly faded although it is trying to be revived.

  • @musfiqurrahman7906
    @musfiqurrahman7906 2 роки тому +450

    All anime, cartoons: the samurais have used sword
    The samurais in real life: My Musket goes boom boom

    • @SamDy99
      @SamDy99 2 роки тому +16

      Musket.. it is

    • @Devilishlybenevolent
      @Devilishlybenevolent 2 роки тому +63

      The reign of the samurais were ended by peasants with muskets.

    • @Marushuu
      @Marushuu 2 роки тому +74

      And before the Musket, they either used a Yari (Spear)/Naginata (Pole Arm) or a Yumi (Bow). Katanas (Swords) are essentially expensive sidearms (Considering the amount of iron/steel used to make a single katana compared to a Yari/Naginata) like that of a Pistol, only used in cramped circumstances or if you lost your main weapon.

    • @lycaonpictus9662
      @lycaonpictus9662 2 роки тому +43

      That film trope really applies to nearly all depictions of warfare before the introduction of firearms. Swords are always depicted as the primary (or even, only) weapon when the reality is that the overwhelming majority of warriors or soldiers used spears or some related polearm.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 роки тому +24

      @@Devilishlybenevolent No, not even slightly, in fact it was the opposite, the samurai were strengthened by the introduction of muskets. After the Sengoku Jidai the Ashigaru were absorbed into the samurai class and muskets became a central part of samurai martial arts. This meant that the Samurai class massively expanded after the introduction of muskets and during the Tokugawa period they basically got to do whatever they want and were completely above the law. What ended the reign of the samurai was the Meiji restoration and the reformation of the Japanese state into one run by dedicated bureaucrats, career soldiers and capitalists, by this point the samurai had become a hated oppressor class and people cheered for the total abolition of the class and the reformation of Japan along western lines. So it was industry, global politics and imperialism that ended the reign of the samurai not peasants with muskets since those peasants became samurai.

  • @donallbreathnach9998
    @donallbreathnach9998 2 роки тому +62

    Words cannot describe how much i would love to See a Kings and generals video on Irish History. Especially Gaelic Ireland, 1000-1600, it’s culture, customs, language, the norman/English invasion and the efforts of the Gaelic Irish lords to Unite, rebel & push back the tide of the growing English rule over our country. ❤️🇮🇪

    • @emmiannon1266
      @emmiannon1266 Рік тому +2

      Strange as it sounds, the plight of the ainu did remind me of the plight of the irish in some ways

    • @jooseppielleese7156
      @jooseppielleese7156 4 місяці тому +1

      @@emmiannon1266 Especially the bans on their traditional culture and exploitation over their dependance on a staple food

  • @CommieRaptor
    @CommieRaptor 2 роки тому +389

    There is a history, that when Russian explorers came to Hokkaido and Sakhalin (island, which is near Japan), they thought Ainu were also Russians, because they looked very similar to them.

    • @Incubator859
      @Incubator859 2 роки тому +86

      I think this is what spooked the Japanese so much that forced integration policies were intensified. Imagine having a colonial power in your doorstep. That will never be allowed by any government whatsoever.

    • @harveyspencer3032
      @harveyspencer3032 2 роки тому +11

      Muscovites, and yeah I figure Finno-Ugrics, Turkics and etc did as well, United States of Muscovy

    • @visigoth3696
      @visigoth3696 2 роки тому +22

      Slavs look nothing like an East Asian, don’t get where you got that from

    • @Incubator859
      @Incubator859 2 роки тому +121

      @@visigoth3696 Ainu's aren't East Asian. Did you even watch the vid?

    • @visigoth3696
      @visigoth3696 2 роки тому +32

      @@Incubator859 I know, but they aren’t Slavs, doesn’t change anything.

  • @jreiland07
    @jreiland07 2 роки тому +137

    Imagine two thieves prowling an Ainu village at night, one turns to the other and says: “Not that house. I hear their toilet spirit doesn’t mess around.”

  • @inuuteqstotts9639
    @inuuteqstotts9639 2 роки тому +38

    Well done Kings and Generals! It's nice to have indigenous history videos from different parts of the world. Keep up the great work!

  • @swest6982
    @swest6982 2 роки тому +103

    There's a bit of a mistake in the beginning of the video (3:45). The Jomon culture was spread across the entire Japanese archipelago for thousands of years, but the map does not show them in western Japan. Also the Yayoi are currently theorized to be a culture that was a mixture between western Jomon people and immigrants from the Korean peninsula. So saying they came from the continent in 1000 BC is oversimplifying it a bit. Including this information could have helped explain why modern Japanese share DNA with Jomon people and perhaps why there are some similarities between Ainu animism and Shintoism.

    • @saywhat664
      @saywhat664 2 роки тому +11

      DNA study showed Japanese and Chinese/Korean are very different.

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому +4

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

    • @buk6199
      @buk6199 Рік тому +1

      @@saywhat664 Yet, they looked alike. How's that dna for you?

  • @bogdandrugov2127
    @bogdandrugov2127 2 роки тому +318

    I am from Sakhalin and it is delightful to see a video about history of one of our land`s native peoples

    • @yo2trader539
      @yo2trader539 2 роки тому +18

      Now that is something refreshing to hear. I don't know what exactly happened with the Karafuto Ainu after the Soviet invasion. I was under the impression many of them fled to Hokkaido.

    • @dmitrishostakovich1671
      @dmitrishostakovich1671 2 роки тому +1

      @@user-uh9no1nm4x Agree.

    • @dmitrishostakovich1671
      @dmitrishostakovich1671 2 роки тому +1

      @@user-uh9no1nm4x Wait I just remembered that I didn't like the Union lol

    • @andro7862
      @andro7862 2 роки тому

      @@yo2trader539 They had Japanese citizenship so with or without consent the Japanese evacuated them.

    • @boycottnok1466
      @boycottnok1466 2 роки тому +3

      You should give your land back to Japan. Shakhalin was Japanese territory.

  • @terryferrett1445
    @terryferrett1445 2 роки тому +582

    "The Emishi were master horse archers, able easily to dance circles around the Yamato forces, which were predominantly made up of heavy infantry."
    -Crassus has left the chat

  • @randomguy4167
    @randomguy4167 2 роки тому +59

    Insane how the Yamato clan in 300 AD still persists as the Imperial House of Japan so many centuries later.

    • @lloyd9500
      @lloyd9500 2 роки тому +19

      They are the longest ruling royal family in the world. Another fun fact: the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo" contains lyrics that date back to a Heian period poem (794-1185 CE), making it the world's oldest lyrics to a national anthem. Japan and tradition, name a more iconic duo

    • @daron6616
      @daron6616 2 роки тому +3

      It could’ve ended tragically after WWII though.

    • @Ad-eu6qx
      @Ad-eu6qx 2 роки тому

      @@daron6616
      いや血は途絶えてないし存続してるわボケ
      人様の国の長を馬鹿にすんのも大概にしろよ

  • @jz5403
    @jz5403 2 роки тому +50

    A new National Ainu Museum opened in Shiraoki, Hokkaido last year. This is the only place in Japan that uses Ainu as the primary language for operation.

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому +4

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

  • @bikkiikun
    @bikkiikun 2 роки тому +920

    Like with the Ryukyuans (in Okinawa) the government sponsored cultural resurgence of the Ainu is in large parts driven by economic motivations, with the Ainu becoming a tourist attraction.
    But, however questionable the motivation by the government is, it is good to revive these cultures.

    • @StopFlaggingVideos
      @StopFlaggingVideos 2 роки тому +89

      agreed. many of these motions are extremely late attempts to say sorry for what was done to small nearly extinct tribes, like the native americans today in the US. is it enough? probably not. is it purely for good reasons? probably not, they do just enough so that people feel better about themselves and stop caring. but whatever the reason, at least they can stay alive in this new age

    • @deanfirnatine7814
      @deanfirnatine7814 2 роки тому +105

      @@StopFlaggingVideos Native Americans are hardly near extinction, a large portion of the county I grew up in was Native American including many of my cousins, they number in the millions, language though is in serious danger of extinction with most. One of the biggest dangers current Native Americans face is from urban liberals crushing the industries Native Americans and other rural Americans depend on like agriculture, commercial fishing and logging this then forces them to leave their reservations and rural America for urban centers looking for work, they become disconnected from their culture and community, intermarry and die out as a people.

    • @StopFlaggingVideos
      @StopFlaggingVideos 2 роки тому +32

      @@deanfirnatine7814 i dont mean to talk badly of them. i mean in the context of the modern world, and the dominant superculture of the US that has dominated the native people, they don't exist in the mind of the world outside the US, much like the regular modern person doesn't know much about the Ainu (if they even know they exist). i'm glad the people themselves physically live on, but their spirit, which makes them what they are, is dying like you said, and they just mix into more americans

    • @GL-iv4rw
      @GL-iv4rw 2 роки тому +9

      Well the Japanese have actually treated its minorities pretty considerably well. (even the Canadians and Americans have started to make up for it)
      Very unlike a certain country/a certain people in contrast, who are conducting mass genocide of its minorities right now which is not necessary to mention by name because we all know exactly who we are talking about.........

    • @bikkiikun
      @bikkiikun 2 роки тому +69

      @@GL-iv4rw : Your bar is quite low, when you say "pretty well".
      The Cultural Genocide of the Ainu is nigh complete. And the Ryukyunan / Okinawan culture survived do to a very large diaspora, that held on to customs and language.
      The 55+ generation of Okinawan and Ainu would still be punished in school (shamed and bullied by the teachers) when they used their native language. Diaspora Okinawans usually know the language better than those who live in the Ryukyus. And even the distinct dialect of Japanese that is used in Okinawa is quickly disappearing, simply because more and more Naicha (mainland Japanese) move there and bring their rather bland accent/dialect with them.
      It is only in the last 30 years, that Naicha discovered the value of the Okinawan culture... because it sells well and has high entertainment value.
      But, like I said before, regardless of the clearly not altruistic motivation, I do welcome the resurrection.

  • @cristhianramirez6939
    @cristhianramirez6939 2 роки тому +87

    The long bearded northern barbarians being a thorn in the side of many great empires. A classic as old as time.

    • @corvus2512
      @corvus2512 2 роки тому

      Which empires are those? The Han and Japanese against the mongols? I keep trying to remember which empires were attacked from the north and i seriously can't think of any others. Most empires seemed to be attacked from the east... arabs, turks, germans, persians (except tthe one time the persians were attacked from the west by alexander) mongols, huns, vikings, europeans into the americas, ottomans, japanese in ww2 against china.... everybody comes from the east!

    • @cristhianramirez6939
      @cristhianramirez6939 2 роки тому +32

      @@corvus2512 I mainly did this comment reffering to Japan and the Ainu, Roman Empire and the germanic tribes and China against the Xiongnu

    • @corvus2512
      @corvus2512 2 роки тому +2

      @@cristhianramirez6939 fair enough and i wasn't criticizing you, i was really racking my brain feeling like i was missing totally obvious answer

    • @mysticonthehill
      @mysticonthehill 2 роки тому +4

      Doesn't get more barbarically bearded than the Langobards (literal long beards) attacking Italy

    • @mlamazigh5398
      @mlamazigh5398 2 роки тому

      @@corvus2512 Mhhhh i thinks we can add the malien empire being destroy by berber touareg from the north but that really all i can thinks about really

  • @PhilipIIofMacadamia
    @PhilipIIofMacadamia 2 роки тому +26

    Indigenous hunter gatherers from all over the world are incredibly awesome. No joke they're ALL of our ancestors and it's a shame we don't know more than we do.

  • @nickm7911
    @nickm7911 Місяць тому +3

    There were a few individuals of Ainu heritage who gained some recognition for their service in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Sergeant Kiichiro Noda's achievements and skills as a sniper earned him the nickname "The Bear of Luban." He participated in various battles, including the Battle of Peleliu in 1944. After the war, he returned to Hokkaido and became an advocate for Ainu rights and culture.

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions 2 роки тому +113

    Yoshida Shoin ((吉田松陰) once wrote:
    "One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace"

    • @Jazzaaaa91
      @Jazzaaaa91 2 роки тому

      Wow.

    • @EmptyMan000
      @EmptyMan000 2 роки тому +2

      That's just telling people if you want glory, be ambitious. Nothing new, or profound about it.

    • @MadMax22
      @MadMax22 2 роки тому

      @Rays Through Trees, Summer Breeze he's a product of a modern pessimistic society. We are too BTW but we aren't saying "tHAtS ObVioUs" so imma pat ourselves on the back.
      Also this guy really just gave one of the most common responses in today's society. There's some Irony in there somewhere but "that's oBvIouS"

  • @gillriet773
    @gillriet773 2 роки тому +21

    As a Canadian, hearing that dugout canoes were outlawed sent me into a blind rage for a second.

  • @leifleoden5464
    @leifleoden5464 2 роки тому +204

    8:40 Too bad the Ainu killed all their bears. If they had been raising bear cubs in their villages for 40,000 years they would have bad ass domesticated pet bears. No ones going to fuck with a people of who have domesticated pet bears!

    • @rubensneto9049
      @rubensneto9049 2 роки тому +30

      "No no he's got a point"

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 роки тому +26

      Obviously this is what we need a time machine for, so we can make the Ainu develop bear cavalry and have them launch the most kick ass conquest of the world.

    • @-R.E.D.A.C.T.E.D-
      @-R.E.D.A.C.T.E.D- 2 роки тому +5

      Bruh that would be crazy. That would be like command and conquer with the Russian bear calvary lol

    • @wildsideofthings7733
      @wildsideofthings7733 2 роки тому +25

      @@hedgehog3180 bears are too aggressive to be domesticated. It’s the same reason why zebras despite being so closely related are untameable. The Russian also tried it in the 20th century with the moose and surprise it’s the same reason.

    • @bromomento3950
      @bromomento3950 2 роки тому +6

      @@wildsideofthings7733 bears can be tamed, and so can zebra. they can't be domesticated. a tame animal is still wild.

  • @ThislsYusuf
    @ThislsYusuf 2 роки тому +231

    I'm glad to see Golden Kamuy fans out here

    • @tcc5750
      @tcc5750 2 роки тому +4

      Aye

    • @09lowkey
      @09lowkey 2 роки тому +10

      Golden Kamuy really do go up. Hidden gem in my opinion. Manga and the Anime go hard.

    • @iama2427
      @iama2427 2 роки тому +1

      just read vol 22

    • @iama2427
      @iama2427 2 роки тому +3

      When I saw it on funimation I knew I had to read the manga and I played ghost of tsishuma it was a unforgitable experiance.

    • @madscientist1045
      @madscientist1045 2 роки тому +3

      @@iama2427 Any news on the 4th season of the anime? I loved it so much!

  • @boomerix
    @boomerix 2 роки тому +23

    I was just googling them yesterday! Kings and Generals always deliver!

  • @narihira572
    @narihira572 2 роки тому +71

    The Ainu were unable to smelt iron even after the 10th century. Therefore, they had to buy swords from Japanese people, but they were originally descendants of the same Jomon people as Japanese people.
    The brave Ainu expelled the northern peoples (Nivkhs) in Hokkaido for trade reasons, then moved north on Sakhalin and attacked mainland China. Encountering the world's strongest Mongolian army who had come to rescue Nivkh, they and the Ainu continued to fight in Sakhalin for about 30 years. After that, the Ainu made peace with Mongolia, and the Ainu got the southern half of Sakhalin. However, in the 19th century, Sakhalin was occupied by the Russians. In the 20th century, the Japanese regained South Sakhalin, where the Ainu once lived, with the victory of the Russo-Japanese War.

    • @kenh758
      @kenh758 2 роки тому +1

      From whom did the Russians get their booty?

    • @Tiverovich
      @Tiverovich 2 роки тому

      Хоккайдо оккупирован японцами. Айны подверглись геноциду со стороны японцев - вот о чём этот фильм. По результатам последней войны Сахалин и Курилы наши.

    • @jakkeledin4645
      @jakkeledin4645 2 роки тому +4

      @@Tiverovich and Karelia is our! RUSSIAN GO AWAY FROM OTHERS LAND!!!!

    • @RedRocket4000
      @RedRocket4000 2 роки тому

      Yes but as shown other groups from the North changed the Jomon of that area producing the Ainu.

    • @Tiverovich
      @Tiverovich 2 роки тому +1

      @@jakkeledin4645 Мы не виноваты. Это шведы-варяги нас завоевали в 862 году и создали свою империю на славянской и финской земле.😇

  • @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle
    @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Рік тому +1

    Informative, nuanced and amazing narration. Keep up the amazing work! 💗🤞✨

  • @vane909090
    @vane909090 2 роки тому +56

    Me to my friend 2 days ago: "I wonder about the ancient history of Japan."
    Today: *KaG uploads just that*
    Wow.

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому +2

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

  • @mr.notsonice
    @mr.notsonice 2 роки тому +292

    Ainus know how to "Hinna hinna"

  • @tasdeedhossaintasin12
    @tasdeedhossaintasin12 2 роки тому +94

    Next time make documentary about Japan's other important minority:Ryukyus.

    • @user-df6fs1sw8q
      @user-df6fs1sw8q 2 роки тому +1

      Yesyes

    • @EmptyMan000
      @EmptyMan000 2 роки тому +2

      @@donantonio5646 More like using proper manners when asking for things.

    • @tasdeedhossaintasin12
      @tasdeedhossaintasin12 2 роки тому +6

      They had an independent kingdom before japanese annexation.

    • @DeepfriedNutz
      @DeepfriedNutz 2 роки тому +4

      @@tasdeedhossaintasin12 Ryukyus are ethnic japanese, they just had a different culture.

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 2 роки тому

      YES

  • @TheHippyProductions
    @TheHippyProductions 2 роки тому

    Thank you for having subtitles it really helps with some of the names

  • @itzJKB
    @itzJKB 2 роки тому +306

    Golden Kamuy taught me a lot about the Ainu !

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 2 роки тому +19

      Great manga and anime

    • @itzJKB
      @itzJKB 2 роки тому +2

      @@avatarus7 yesss amazing anime

    • @itzJKB
      @itzJKB 2 роки тому +2

      @@SeanHiruki for sure , absolutely love it

    • @adm2275
      @adm2275 2 роки тому +1

      Same

    • @Alatriste90
      @Alatriste90 2 роки тому +2

      Lol I was looking for this comment

  • @nicksherman5702
    @nicksherman5702 2 роки тому +17

    My sons a week old and your videos have gotten both of us through many 2am feedings! Thanks for the awesome videos!

  • @PeterKruchowski
    @PeterKruchowski 2 роки тому

    I knew about the Ainu. But this has been the most in-depth description of the history for length I have ran across, thank you.

  • @Kermitpan
    @Kermitpan 2 роки тому +25

    Great video! I’ve actually travelled across much of Hokkaido! It’s such an amazing place, the is an Ainu history museum in the north part of the island. The north side and many areas of the nature all still feel wild

  • @shepardthemailman
    @shepardthemailman 2 роки тому +32

    I've just started to read Golden Kamuy, the history and traditions of the Ainu are really fascinating

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 2 роки тому +33

    This is an absolutely delightful upload! Truly informative and well presented about a seriously underrated subject

    • @albatros33
      @albatros33 2 роки тому +4

      Yorumların siliniyor öncekini okudun mu :(((

  • @GaborSzitas22
    @GaborSzitas22 2 роки тому

    YES! so cool that you covered this!

  • @marksgraybeal
    @marksgraybeal 2 роки тому +10

    i met one of last leaders of their norther island nation, as he said. artist carved bears from wood at our old faithfull yellowstone store. i bought a small item as could afford for my home. He as i for got name, like my repyouguitar practices. so i fail english but study linquistics, much glad to have met such person said to be of the last leaders in 1986.

  • @isprikitikburkabush6200
    @isprikitikburkabush6200 2 роки тому +163

    I recommend the anime Golden Kamuy, you will learn a lot about the Ainu culture, the protagonist is an Ainu btw

    • @Mrkabrat
      @Mrkabrat 2 роки тому +11

      Got to love Asirpa and her insistance on Sugimoto eating the animal brains since they are "Hina, hina"

    • @mr.notsonice
      @mr.notsonice 2 роки тому +22

      Golden kamui is the gayest and manliest manga you'll ever read

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 2 роки тому

      @@NapoleonAquila as they should be

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 2 роки тому +5

      @@comradekenobi6908 there is nothing wrong with learning from anime. Hell Golden Kamuy wasn’t even the first show to have an Ainu character. Shaman King has one as well

    • @commisaryarreck3974
      @commisaryarreck3974 2 роки тому +2

      @@mr.notsonice
      Lies!
      That's Jojo, but it does come close

  • @piloncillodaddy
    @piloncillodaddy 2 роки тому +103

    I love this channel when it comes about discussing about lesser known cultures/civilizations!
    You guys must consider making a video about the P'urepecha Empire who were never conquered by the Mexica

    • @cardenasr.2898
      @cardenasr.2898 2 роки тому +5

      There are many interesting peoples in ancient Mexico besides Mexica and Mayans. I for one am keen on learning about the Chichimeca and Otomí

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 роки тому +1

      It's my favorite aspect of this channel, the focus on not just the stuff that's popular but lesser known yet amazing stories. So many channels about military history only cover famous battles or battles fought by popular countries and empires and it's frankly boring plus they can usually never match the accuracy of real historians.

    • @urahairymonster
      @urahairymonster 2 роки тому +3

      Yes! Also the Yaqui/Yoeme who also resisted conquer from other native tribes as well as the Spaniards.

  • @tertmade9769
    @tertmade9769 11 місяців тому +10

    Their were many different tribal kingdoms in Japanese island before they became Japan, it's not just Ainu
    Other people exist such as Nivk, Izumo, Koshi, Owari, Keno, Kibi, Shikoku, Nakoku, Kumaso, Hayato, Emishi

  • @Omnominus
    @Omnominus 2 роки тому

    I think this is the most i've ever learned on this channel! great video, thank you!

  • @hudojnik93
    @hudojnik93 2 роки тому +177

    For those who watched Princess Mononoke and Memoirs of a Geisha - the protagonists are of the Ainu people.

    • @bluewolvesstudios2822
      @bluewolvesstudios2822 2 роки тому +4

      Yes.

    • @maseoembry4165
      @maseoembry4165 2 роки тому +51

      Ashitaka is actually Emishi, which actually have very little surviving documentation beyond the fact that they existed. They are also an indigenous group of Japan, but are distinct

    • @smileyandpeople9030
      @smileyandpeople9030 2 роки тому +2

      Wow, certainly

    • @ericcloud1023
      @ericcloud1023 2 роки тому +10

      Now I'm watching princess monoke after this again....followed by nausaca and the valley of the wind....then howls moving castle...then spirited away you see what you've done!

    • @D1str1ct
      @D1str1ct 2 роки тому +4

      @@ericcloud1023 i still havent worked up the courage to watch grave of fire flies

  • @hansenhartono7426
    @hansenhartono7426 2 роки тому +4

    I have been curious about Ainu for long time. Thanks for this video.

  • @austinyang3573
    @austinyang3573 2 дні тому

    I'm so happy you made a video of these Islanders. ❤️

  • @sebastiantapia804
    @sebastiantapia804 2 роки тому

    I love your videos guys, thank you so much for the content

  • @chaosspork
    @chaosspork 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you for making this video. It was really interesting and I hope it helps more people learn about the Ainu

  • @denysd7241
    @denysd7241 2 роки тому +110

    Those bear cubs were in for a big surprise at the end!

    • @For3xampleJohn
      @For3xampleJohn 2 роки тому +2

      How is the video a few minutes old, but this comment 10 hours old?

    • @sgtpetergreen
      @sgtpetergreen 2 роки тому +5

      @@For3xampleJohn channel members get the video early im pretty sure

    • @For3xampleJohn
      @For3xampleJohn 2 роки тому

      @@sgtpetergreen Oh. Didn't know that.

    • @mr.notsonice
      @mr.notsonice 2 роки тому

      Well they gotta "go back" somehow

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 2 роки тому +3

      The video kinda shows the ainu being forceful when they take a cub but in reality they weren’t. Those bears were treated very very well until their sacrifice

  • @chrisdaniels4128
    @chrisdaniels4128 2 роки тому

    The fact y'all have a THEMED sponsor is super awesome I love every video y'all put out

  • @Vinemaple
    @Vinemaple Рік тому

    This is an excellent video. I like the extra graphical touches and the additional notes onscreen. And only one mispronounced word in the whole video! All in all, well done. It's great to see this channel's quality go up and up!

  • @landonsmith2154
    @landonsmith2154 2 роки тому +3

    YES!
    I have been studying ainu foods, and many of them are pretty elusive to find information about!

  • @Tomoyuki473
    @Tomoyuki473 2 роки тому +111

    I went to the Ainu Museum in Sapporo last month and needless to say im so happy that more and more people are taking interest in the Ainu! Such a cool but overlooked culture.

  • @vladimirbazhaev7851
    @vladimirbazhaev7851 2 роки тому

    Honestly your topics are absolutely brilliant

  • @soe3121
    @soe3121 2 роки тому

    Wonderful and most informative video ever on Ainu!

  • @sachinmishra930
    @sachinmishra930 2 роки тому +43

    For Ainu men, no shave November was a year long festival that was celebrated every year

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. 2 роки тому +6

    Great video about a fascinating topic!
    Fun fact: a great researcher of the Ainu culture (as well, as cultures of the Nivkh and Orok peoples) was Bronisław Piłsudski, older brother of the famous Polish leader Józef Piłsudski. He was exiled to Sakhalin in 1887 for involvement in the same anti-tsarist plot, that got Alexander Ulyanov (older brother of Lenin) executed. Piłsudski also married an Ainu woman, Chufsanma, a nice of Chief Bafunkei, and had two children with her. Their descendants live in Japan to this day.

    • @user-vk4jl8fu6w
      @user-vk4jl8fu6w 2 роки тому

      Ainu is Ainoko, who was born in BC1200, when a bleached beggar on the coast of the Amur River, exiled by the Mongolian army, invaded Hokkaido and raped and murdered a Satsumon who was a descendant of the Japanese Jomon people. Not a native of Japan.
      アイヌはBC1200,モンゴル軍に追放されたアムール川沿岸の漂白乞食が北海道に侵略し、日本縄文人末裔の擦文人を強姦殺戮して産まれたアイノ子である。日本先住民ではない。
      The remaining Aino language is a mixture of dozens of languages, including the languages of the Amur River basin drifters, the Kamchatka coastal drifters, and the Okhotsk coastal drifters, and the origin of the languages is unknown. This is also memorized in the gene, and the old gene has genes of several tribes along the continental coast, and the Jomon gene is mixed after their mixture and marriage. Here, the Japanese Jomon gene is mixed in Aino, but the Japanese Jomon are destroyed by murder and rape, and the language and culture of the Japanese Jomon have not been handed down.
      Aino is an ancient Ainu word, but its meaning is that it was born to a different ethnic group. Today Aino describes this as a human being. The explanation is missing. Before the extinction of the Jomon people, the words "Aino is a human being" were interpreted as "Aino is a human being born by a Jomon woman, but is an Ainoko born by rape by a different ethnic group." It is unclear what the name of this Aino was called in the dialect of Southern Hokkaido. In Vietnam, the Yomiuri Shimbun reporter estimates that Vietnamese girls were raped many times during the Vietnam War and gave birth to one million children. A maximum of 30,000 Korean soldiers, usually 20,000, gave birth to 1 million children. Most of these Dairaihan are hateful Korean soldiers, and most of them are thrown away in the sea, rivers and jungles, and nuts and other food for animals. Even so, there are tens of thousands of Dairaihan who cannot be thrown away. The Ainu are also children of the same age as Dairaihan. Just as Dairaihan is not recognized as an indigenous people of Vietnam, Aino cannot be recognized as an indigenous people of Japan.
      現在残されたアイノ語はアムール川流域漂泊民の言語、カムチャツカ沿岸漂泊民の言語、オホーツク沿岸漂泊民の言語など数十言語の混成で、この一部が言語消失前に残された。したがって全アイヌ語のどの系統であるのかさえ不明である。アイヌの呼称そのものがアイヌ語では無く日本縄文人の言語である。古称ではアイノである。アイノの呼称は道南の一部の方言で、アイヌ全体ではなんと呼称していたかは判らない。このような状況は、遺伝子にも記憶され、古い遺伝子は大陸沿岸の数種の部族の遺伝子があり、それらの混成、雑婚ののち縄文人遺伝子が混入している。ここで、日本縄文人遺伝子がアイノに混入するが、日本縄文人は殺戮、強姦で滅亡し、「間の子」であるアイノに日本縄文人の言語、文化は伝承できていない。
      アイノはアイヌの古語であるが、その意味は異民族との間に生まれたという意味である。これを現在のアイノは人間と説明している。説明が抜けている。縄文人が絶滅前に「縄文人女が産んだ人間であるが異民族が強姦して生まれたアイノ子である。」と泣き叫んだ言葉が「アイノは人間」と解釈したのである。このアイノの名称も道南の方言で他のアイノはなんと呼称したかは不明である。ベトナムではベトナム戦争時、ベトナム少女が何度も強姦され、100万人の間の子が産まれたと読売新聞記者は推定している。最大韓国兵3万人、通常2万人の韓国兵が100万人間の子を産ませた。このダイライハンのほとんどは憎き敵の韓国兵の子としてほとんどは海、川、ジャングルに捨てられ動物の餌にナッた。それでも捨てきれないダイライハンが数万人生存している。アイヌもダイライハンと同様の「間の子」である。ダイライハンがベトナム先住民と認定されないように、アイノも日本先住民に認定できない。
      資料・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・
      Studies on Genetic Features and Histories of Ancient Human Populations in Hokkaido ,
      using Mitochondrial and Autosomal DNA Analyses
      (ミトコンドリアDNAおよび常染色体DNA分析による北海道古代人類集団の遺伝的特徴と歴史に関する研究)
      縄文・続縄文人とオホーック文化人において、5つの対立遺伝子が検出され、それらの頻度分布が集団間で異なっていることが判明した。さらに、縄文・続縄文人では、OG対立遺伝子の頻度が対立遺伝子の頻度よりも著しく高いことが明らかとなった。既報によると、OG対立遺伝子の頻度は日本列島の南に位置する沖縄や鹿児島で高く、かっ、北や東に位置する秋田や茨城などでも比較的高いが、近畿や東海地方では低いことがわかっている。よって、OG対立遺伝子の頻度が高いことは、縄文系の人々の特徴であると考えられた。
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

      [アイヌ利権]リストになぜか在日朝鮮人。
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      中山千夏(作家)
      朴慶南(エッセイスト)
      針生一郎(丸木美術館館長)
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      丸山未来子(おんな組事務局)
      mkjh is oiuy of bhu

  • @IPangkhor
    @IPangkhor 10 місяців тому

    Absolutely amazingly done!

  • @makedonskiblisk
    @makedonskiblisk 11 місяців тому

    Thank you for this great video. Golden Kamuy brought me to the Ainu and this video really shined the light on their culture and history.

  • @mr_fyahz9624
    @mr_fyahz9624 2 роки тому +18

    First time I learned about the Ainu was through an anime, but beyond it being a cartoon comparing it to this video the accuracy of details and culture shown in Golden Kamui is truly impressive

  • @09lowkey
    @09lowkey 2 роки тому +59

    "Hinna Hinna"
    Shout out to Asripa, Sugimoto, Shiraishi and the gang.

    • @xXxSkyViperxXx
      @xXxSkyViperxXx 2 роки тому +1

      anime for japanese audience. they had to really make all the other main characters in that anime as greedy gold-loving imperial japanese soldiers lol

    • @zafz5241
      @zafz5241 2 роки тому +1

      Ashirpa

    • @09lowkey
      @09lowkey 2 роки тому +1

      @@zafz5241 The English translation spells it as Asripa. Watch the anime, read the manga, there's no h in her name.

    • @09lowkey
      @09lowkey 2 роки тому

      @@xXxSkyViperxXx Well except the sniper, the wildcat, dude just wanna cause chaos. But I guess he has his reasons.

    • @xXxSkyViperxXx
      @xXxSkyViperxXx 2 роки тому

      @@09lowkey wasnt "Asirpa" in the anime

  • @Numb3r_47
    @Numb3r_47 2 роки тому

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler 2 роки тому

    Very interesting video! Thanks!

  • @doanphat1480
    @doanphat1480 2 роки тому +36

    Came here after playing Samurai Shodown and watching Golden Kamuy

    • @ilznidiotic
      @ilznidiotic 2 роки тому +3

      Rimururu was always tough to beat in SSII, even against Ukyo. Always cost me an extra quarter.

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 2 роки тому +2

      A gentleman of culture and taste

  • @mr.referee1883
    @mr.referee1883 2 роки тому +14

    I learned about the Ainu in the anime Golden Kamuy, and I recommend everyone to watch it

  • @tehoriginalcracka
    @tehoriginalcracka 2 роки тому +1

    I finished a book the other on the history of the Samarai which included the wars in northern Japan
    It's good to see it animated

  • @felixhaggblom7562
    @felixhaggblom7562 2 роки тому

    Love love love these styles of videos

  • @mudawg81
    @mudawg81 2 роки тому +25

    It would be great if you did a video on the ryukyu people and their history.

    • @TheImperiumAction
      @TheImperiumAction 2 роки тому +2

      No

    • @SC-jt3uf
      @SC-jt3uf 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheImperiumAction Why?

    • @boycottnok1466
      @boycottnok1466 2 роки тому +6

      No need. Ryukyuan people are 100% Japanese before anything.

    • @lifeisshort99
      @lifeisshort99 2 роки тому

      Me too! As a Korean native I taught many Koreans self exile to Ryukye during Mongo invasion.

  • @caymuscairns6845
    @caymuscairns6845 2 роки тому +70

    Ainu women: "I'm the joker baby"

    • @conejodemercurio6301
      @conejodemercurio6301 2 роки тому

      ahahahahahhahahahahahaah

    • @Illlium
      @Illlium 2 роки тому

      It boggles the mind why they would do it, I've got nothing.

    • @doomerbloomer6160
      @doomerbloomer6160 2 роки тому +3

      @@Illlium Like many (most) cultural aspects of any other people, they probably have no practical purpose that is immediately evident. Doesn't mean they're not important.
      Tell me, when a loved one dies, do you do a proper funeral with a ceremony or do you throw their body in a ditch? A ceremony has no practical purpose, and a grave is just a hole in the ground, why not just pile bodies in a ditch? I think you see where I'm going with this. I'm sure you'd argue that the funeral ceremony has many purposes that could be practical, like uniting a family under a tragic event. The Ainu would probably argue the same in regards to the mouth tattoos. They represent a girl's transition into a grown woman.
      Culture is not about practicality. It's the spirit of a people. One should be very careful disregarding cultural practices, whatever they may be.

    • @Illlium
      @Illlium 2 роки тому

      @@doomerbloomer6160 I get your point, but two things here:
      all people I know might as well be thrown in a ditch, I don't particularly give a damn - if I want to mourn the dead I don't need to be standing over their corpse;
      "culture is not about practicality" is probably the wrongest statement I've heard this week - there's always a reason besides "muh culture", cultural aspects have been selected for and evolved just like living beings, they don't just spontaneously come into existence from the sky.
      I don't think these tattoos are particularly heinous, I just found it interesting, and what you say kinda makes sense. At least they didn't mutilate each others genitals.

    • @ZLotus
      @ZLotus 2 роки тому +2

      AND you are rude and disrespectful of other cultures, why did your mother teach you to be this way so cruel?

  • @locotaco2671
    @locotaco2671 2 роки тому +34

    As a Native American (Atikamekw Nehiriwisiw), I relate to the Ainu peoples so much as we suffered the same things (becoming a minority on our own homelands, oppressive assimilation policies, forbidden traditional ceremonies, dwindling native speakers, etc.)
    Heck, even the name Ainu is similar to the term for "Man" in many of our languages (Innu, Eeyou, Iriniw, etc.)

    • @swamphearts3104
      @swamphearts3104 2 роки тому +6

      I’m black , Mississippi choctaw and reconnecting plains my people didn’t fight with the government as much but still had so much taken and our oppressors tried to destroy us completely because they were worried that we would revolt

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

  • @bangnemu5156
    @bangnemu5156 2 роки тому

    Got new Ainu reference after watching Golden Kamuy.. Thank you for explanation

  • @genericviking8176
    @genericviking8176 2 роки тому +48

    Many similarities between the ainu and the sami of my home country.

    • @flamixflame2685
      @flamixflame2685 2 роки тому

      @@comradekenobi6908 northern Finland

    • @genericviking8176
      @genericviking8176 2 роки тому +11

      @@comradekenobi6908 an indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia with a population of around 80 thousand If I remember correctly, mostly in Norway.

    • @harveyspencer3032
      @harveyspencer3032 2 роки тому +2

      Finno-Ugrics, cousin of Hungarian and Finnish

    • @mapoch9000
      @mapoch9000 2 роки тому +7

      here is few of them in Russia too, XD. Ainu and Sami in one country, crazy.

    • @jokemon9547
      @jokemon9547 2 роки тому +11

      @@jtsy7499 Basic similarities can be found all across northern Eurasia from western Uralic groups (like Sami and the Finns) all the way to eastern Siberia and the northern Pacific regions. Things such as animism, bear worship, veneration and deep respect for nature etc. Although when it comes to Finns and the Sami, these aspects are a thing of the past for the most part due to christianization over the past 1000 years, but remnants still can be found in their cultures. Also another similarity is the history of being pushed out of their lands by others and being much smaller linguistically and culturally than their larger neighbors.

  • @misfortunemate8261
    @misfortunemate8261 2 роки тому +7

    At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Ainu families were displayed by the Japanese, along with their homes.
    The intention was to bring in the indigenous Ainu to show the contrast with the more modern Japanese empire.
    It is amazing how quickly the Japanese learned to their racial superiority and conquest justification over the natives of the West.

    • @shazzatulanam6680
      @shazzatulanam6680 2 роки тому +1

      While in rome do what the romans do.

    • @youitiokajima7345
      @youitiokajima7345 2 роки тому +1

      国連で北海道アイヌ協会・野村義一 理事長の演説がある。この中に「北海道に、はるか昔から独自の社会と文化を形成してきた」の嘘の一文を紛れ込ませている。There is a speech by the President of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Giichi Nomura, at the United Nations. In this, a lie sentence of "Hokkaido has formed its own society and culture for a long time" is mixed in.
      アイヌの歴史を知らない者には「はるか昔」とは、誰も住んでいない昔からアイノが住んでいたと誤解させる意図の発言である。北海道には紀元前から日本縄文人が集落を作り暮らしてきた。オホーツク常呂2000戸の日本縄文人住居跡遺跡がある。礼文島遺跡では日本縄文人遺骨から遺伝子が採取され、その容姿はアイノではない。For those who do not know the history of the Ainu, "a long time ago" is a statement intended to misunderstand that Aino has lived since ancient times when no one lived. Japanese Jomon people have lived in Hokkaido since BC. Okhotsk Tokoro There are 2,000 Japanese Jomon people's residence ruins. At the Rebun Island site, genes were collected from the remains of Japanese Jomon people, and their appearance is not Aino.
      考古学遺跡と遺伝子解析の結果、アイノは北方漂白民集団が団結してオホーツ民となりモンゴル支配を拒絶して、鎌倉時代(AD1200)に日本縄文人の先住民を毒矢と鉄器の武器で襲いかかり絶滅させた。この時、生存した日本縄文人少女を性の奴隷として強姦しアイノ子を産ませた。これがアイノの始まりである。アイノは日本縄文言語のハーフの意味である。アイノ遺跡は鎌倉時代以後の年代よりも古い時代のものはない。なぜならアイノは存在していないからである。統一した文化や言語もないオホーツク民がルーツだから。したがってアイノ出現の前は民族という統一文化・言語も無い大陸沿岸やカムチャッカから集まったオホーツクの集団である。そのアイノがどうして日本先住民といえるのですか?As a result of archaeological sites and genetic analysis, Aino became an Okhotz people by uniting a group of northern bleachers and refused to rule Mongolia. rice field. At this time, he raped a surviving Japanese Jomon girl as a sex slave and gave birth to Ainoko. This is the beginning of Aino. Aino means half of the Japanese Jomon language. No Aino site is older than the Kamakura period. Because Aino doesn't exist. It has its roots in the Okhotsk people, who have no unified culture or language. Therefore, before the appearance of Aino, it was a group of Okhotsk gathered from the continental coast and Kamchatka, which had no unified culture and language of ethnicity. Why can Aino be said to be an indigenous people of Japan?
      遺伝的特徴から見たオホーツク人--­大陸と北海道の間の交流
      増 田 隆 一 *(北海道大学)
      Genetic features of the Okhotsk people: Interaction between the continent and Hokkaido
      Ryuichi Masuda* (Hokkaido University)
      著者は、断片化した残存DNAの遺伝子増幅および外来DNA混入の防御に細心の注意を払った古代DNA分析法と多様な遺伝子マーカーを用いることにより、オホーック文化人が仲介となり、アムール河下流域を中心とした大陸集団からアイヌへの遺伝子流動があったことを明確に示した。以上の成果は、これまで不明であった日本列島北部における人類集団間の遺伝子流動に関して時間を追って示された新しい知見であり、人類学および考古学などの自然史研究に対して貢献するところ大なるものがある。
      よって、著者が北海道大学博士(理学)の学位を授与される資格があるものと認める。

  • @CrimsonDragon15
    @CrimsonDragon15 2 роки тому

    Golden Kamuy anime taught be quite a bit about the Ainu. This great documentary reminded me of it.

  • @brianschwarz
    @brianschwarz 2 роки тому

    Excellent work!

  • @angusyang5917
    @angusyang5917 2 роки тому +58

    The last time I was this early, Japan was still under the rule of emperors and not shoguns.

    • @mackycabangon8945
      @mackycabangon8945 2 роки тому +14

      Last time I was this early, the foreign Yayōi were not in Japan, Jomon still dominated the Japanese region

    • @mackycabangon8945
      @mackycabangon8945 2 роки тому +1

      @sebâstian turnayev what?

    • @nos8141
      @nos8141 2 роки тому

      @@mackycabangon8945 that is very early...
      Lol

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 роки тому

      Do you realize how little this tells us about how early you were?

  • @brainflash1
    @brainflash1 2 роки тому +26

    I always felt bad conquering their island in Rise of Nations.

    • @JJJBunney001
      @JJJBunney001 2 роки тому +16

      I feel bad you've played rise of nations

  • @staninjapan07
    @staninjapan07 2 роки тому

    That's a great round-up, thanks.
    I was not aware that Khan made it to Kyuushuu.

  • @StopFlaggingVideos
    @StopFlaggingVideos 2 роки тому +3

    fascinating. i was always interested about the mysterious ainu, on the rare chances that i'd see them mentioned in historical contexts about japan, and when i would play shogun 2 i was always curious about that northernmost inaccessible island of barbarians that you could trade with but not explore within

  • @b.johnathanwarriorinagarde7980
    @b.johnathanwarriorinagarde7980 2 роки тому +7

    What a rare topic you've chosen, I've enjoyed watching your progress.

  • @thicclegendfeep4050
    @thicclegendfeep4050 2 роки тому +85

    The relationship between the Japanese and the Jomon and Jomon descendants some what reminds me of the relationship between the English and the celts and their descendants. A people from the continent comes in and takes all of your land and pushes your culture to the edges of the island, before finally conquering all of you after hundreds of years of stubborn resistance. Btw, no hate on Japanese or English people, just a comparison I saw

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 2 роки тому +16

      Colonialism as well, by extension

    • @Alex-ek5yp
      @Alex-ek5yp 2 роки тому +5

      Yeah, you're ignorant, the English descended from celts, as well as some other groups, they never "invaded"

    • @thicclegendfeep4050
      @thicclegendfeep4050 2 роки тому +40

      @@Alex-ek5yp I'm ignorant ? Yes, the English do descend from the Celts, but they also largely descend from the Anglo Saxons, who are the people our language descend from, do you think they were natives ? I guess northern Germany and Denmark are a part of England.

    • @Alex-ek5yp
      @Alex-ek5yp 2 роки тому +3

      @@thicclegendfeep4050 Angles and saxons assimilated the local population, anglo saxons, like celts, are a cultural group, not an ethnic group

    • @larshofler8298
      @larshofler8298 2 роки тому +8

      The difference being the Irish still exist... And the Scotts still won't let you call them English. But really, in the case of Japan, the sheer population and high productivity of rice cultivating culture means the primitive hunter-gatherer economy would be marginalized. It was not war, it was a competition of mode of production. Those natives who joined Japanese villages and kingdoms became what we call Japanese today, they certainly contributed a lot to the formation of the Japanese. And even the pre-Japanese natives were not a single culture or nation, there's evidence that some of them were related to pre-Austronesian populations of southern Korea and eastern China

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 2 роки тому

    Thank you , K&G .

  • @te9602
    @te9602 2 роки тому

    Very informative documentary to learn history of Ainu. Also, watching anime named, "Golden Kamui" is very useful to learn their lifestyle in detail.

  • @kusuriful
    @kusuriful 2 роки тому +14

    Emishi is a general term for people in the Kanto, Tohoku, and Hokkaido regions who were not subordinate to the Yamato court.
    The group influenced by the Yamato court was called Wajin by the Chinese dynasty.
    There were people such as Kumaso and Hayato in the west, but they were defeated by the Yamato court and annexed.
    Some Emishi groups, such as Saeki and Kuzu, were annexed and assimilated over the years.
    Among them, Emishi, who lived in Hokkaido, continued the Jomon culture until around the 13th century.Their culture is called Zoku-Jōmon culture, or Satsumon culture.
    Around the 14th century, they were mixed with the people of Siberian and Sakhalin who had been squeezed by Mongolia and moved south. It formed its own culture and became known as the Ainu.
    Some Ainu were mixed with Wajin, and some traded south to the Kanto region.
    However, not only the friendly relationship but also the power relationship with the Wajin caused dissatisfaction with the unfavorable business transactions and working environment, and the Ainu uprised many times.
    The Battle of Koshamain, the Battle of Shakushain, and the Battle of Kunashiri Menashi are famous.
    And the Ainu were also exposed to the threat of Russia. The Kamchatka Ainu disappeared as an ethnic group due to the defeat of the Russian Empire and smallpox.
    In the 18th century, the Ainu of the Kuril Islands were overwhelmed by Russia, and fled to Hokkaido to escape the economic pressure caused by heavy taxes, and reported to the Edo Shogunate, the government of the Wajin at that time.
    As a result, the Shogunate became afraid that Russia would occupy the whole of Hokkaido. The need for northern guards has come to be explained.
    This was the first opportunity for "centralized Japan" in the Meiji era to officially incorporate Hokkaido as a national land.
    Since the concept of the nation was born in the modern sense, the Ainu have continued to be sandwiched between the two countries of Japan and Russia.
    Today, the Hokkaido Ainu are Japanese, and the Ainu of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands are Russian.
    In both Japan and Russia, some Ainu have been forcibly relocated due to national reasons, some have become assimilated due to mixed races, and some have been unable to return to the land they were born in while evacuated in WW2. So most of the Ainu descendants are no longer aware of their roots.

  • @SavageDragon999
    @SavageDragon999 2 роки тому +36

    Imagine you're a bear cub growing up near humans thinking they're your parents and one day they just turn you into a fucking hedgehog lol.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 2 роки тому +12

      I was thinking the same thing, it must seem such a horrible betrayal from the bear's perspective.

    • @hx5525
      @hx5525 2 роки тому +2

      Sounds horrible, do u think the bears even resisted much or were they just dazed and confused

    • @dmitrishostakovich1671
      @dmitrishostakovich1671 2 роки тому

      @@hx5525 Are you vegan?

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 роки тому

      @@hx5525 I think they all died.

    • @hx5525
      @hx5525 2 роки тому

      @@dmitrishostakovich1671 No

  • @stewartthomas2642
    @stewartthomas2642 2 роки тому

    Love your stuff kick on love it

  • @elderashagall
    @elderashagall Рік тому

    You should do one of the Emishi from Awashimaura. Their story is epic and one worthy of retelling!

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 2 роки тому +40

    If the Mongols, after losing two wars against the Japanese, had heard about the Emishi, they would've cried.

    • @hitokiriizo
      @hitokiriizo 2 роки тому +8

      They didn't lose to the Japanese, they lost to the weather.

    • @walnzell9328
      @walnzell9328 2 роки тому +9

      @@hitokiriizo Well, they lost the the Japanese, fled back to the sea, but before they could regroup and attack again, they lost to the weather.

    • @nametv2570
      @nametv2570 2 роки тому +6

      As a Mongolian, we know our history more than you, friend. And honestly, We lost to the weather that's it. If our ancestors landed okay... You know the answer.

    • @walnzell9328
      @walnzell9328 2 роки тому +1

      The Mongols took Tsushima and Iki islands pretty easily both times. Gotta give 'em credit for that.

    • @fungisrock8955
      @fungisrock8955 2 роки тому +8

      @@walnzell9328 There was like 80 men defending them

  • @dominantgenekensei
    @dominantgenekensei 2 роки тому +3

    Super glad you guys made this video! My favorite anime (Golden Kamuy) centers heavily around Hokkaido and the Ainu culture!

  • @olejnik5165
    @olejnik5165 2 роки тому +87

    When Ainus were consrcipted into Imperial Japanese army and were sent to Borneo, Australian army there thought that the Ainus attacking are Germans because Ainus are larger and appear to be look more European physical wise

    • @baltazarandrada8793
      @baltazarandrada8793 2 роки тому +23

      Yes. I saw a picture of a modern day Ainu on the internet and he looks so white American in appearance! He looks as if he's a country singer from Tennessee. 😂

    • @ivorkovac303
      @ivorkovac303 2 роки тому +1

      Do you know what the name of that unit was, and are there any pictures?

    • @conejodemercurio6301
      @conejodemercurio6301 2 роки тому +1

      @@ivorkovac303 in interent search something like ainus in ww2

    • @ivorkovac303
      @ivorkovac303 2 роки тому +2

      @@conejodemercurio6301 Yea I'm not getting much of anything, which was why I was hoping he might know the name or number of the regiment. There was one photo of a Japanese unit that had one guy with a beard in it.

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 2 роки тому +10

      @@baltazarandrada8793 Ainus barely resemble Europeans. They may pass as a middle easterner or north african in some cases but you really think they resemble your average European? Put them in the streets of Europe and they won't look European. You are only making that assertion because they generally look different to the Japon people but are clearly not white passing

  • @frederickwallace6552
    @frederickwallace6552 2 роки тому

    Very interesting. Never realised all this was so recent.