Historical term for the islands north of Japan and their people
For other uses, see Ezo (disambiguation).
"Yesso" redirects here. For the footballer, see Diego Yesso.
Map of the "Land of Iesso" by French cartographer Alain Manesson Mallet (1683)
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 Kuril Islands.[3][4] The word Ezo means "the land of the barbarians" in Japanese.[8]
In reference to the people of that region, the same two kanji used to write the word Ezo can also be read Emishi. The descendants of these people are most likely related to the Ainu people of today.[9]
^Batchelor, John. (1902). Sea-Girt Yezo: Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan, pp. 2–8.
^Harrison, John A., "Notes on the discovery of Ezo", Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 1950), pp. 254–266 [1]
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^Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ezo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 184.
^"Settler colonialism in the making of Japan's Hokkaido¯". The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism. Routledge. 2016. pp. 351–362. doi:10.4324/9781315544816-36. ISBN 978-1-315-54481-6.
^Haywood, John; Jotischky, Andrew; McGlynn, Sean (1998). Historical Atlas of the Medieval World, AD 600–1492. Barnes & Noble. pp. 3.24–. ISBN 978-0-7607-1976-3.
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