Imekanu information

Imekanu (イメカヌ, November 10, 1875 – April 6, 1961), also known by her Japanese name Kannari Matsu (金成 マツ), was an Ainu missionary and epic poet. Along...

aunt Imekanu in Chikabumi, on the outskirts of Asahikawa, when she was six years old, presumably to lessen the financial burden on her parents. Imekanu lived...

A picture of Imekanu, right, with her niece Yukie Chiri, a famous Ainu Japanese transcriber and translator of Ainu epic tales. (1922)...

grandmother performed. She compiled the historical chants from her aunt Imekanu in a book titled Ainu shin'yoshu. The Ainu have rituals in which they "send...

2007 of the project to translate and transcribe the yukar compilations of Imekanu, Kannari Matsu Notebooks (金成マツノート, Kan-nari Matsu Nōto), which consists...

Nabesawa Wakarpa, and published this version together with Imekanu's version in 1932. Imekanu's transcription in original Ainu is a vital specimen of the...

Oral Culture アイヌ口承文芸 Ainu kōshō bungei passim See Yukar, Kutune Shirka, Imekanu, Chiri Yukie (pictured) 42°33′41″N 141°22′01″E / 42.561347°N 141.366885°E...

Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. His older sister is Yukie Chiri and his aunt is Imekanu. Though they were both native Ainu speakers, Chiri was not. He was taught...