The Menasunkur Ainu (Katakana: メナシクル) are an Ainu subgroup living on the eastern Hokkaido coast near Shizunai. Shakushain, the leader of the Menasunkur Ainu, led the Shakushain Revolts, the first large-scale attempt by the Ainu to dislodge the encroaching Japanese onto Hokkaido. The meaning of menas-un-kur is "the eastern people"; there is a theory that the Ainu adapted the concept "east" from Japanese peoples and adapted it into their name later.[1]
^Kyoko, Kojima (1996). The East of the Land Where Ezo Lives: What are the Menasunkur. Hokkaido Publishing Planning Center. p. 138.
MenasunkurAinu (Katakana: メナシクル) are an Ainu subgroup living on the eastern Hokkaido coast near Shizunai. Shakushain, the leader of the Menasunkur Ainu...
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Asian agricultural continental people (from the Korean Peninsula) than the Ainu and the Ryukyuans, with major admixture occurring in and after the Yayoi...
sides when Shakushain's movement picked up major steam, contacting the MenasunkurAinu in East Hokkaido to persuade them and conducted spying on Matsumae...
connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people (Ainu-minzoku). In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the...
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