More AINU - new book

[Bazza]

Just saw this:

http://www.bookmice....ilde/Japan/ainu.html

 

Found it in this pinterest page that has lots of Ainu content:

https://www.pinteres...=5310208407280597405

 

BaZZa.

[kissakai]

Nice

 

[george trotter]

Interesting Bazza. First people of Japan....I've often wondered if they were the first people of western Canada also.

In my young years 1969-1971  I spent some time in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia.

I have to say that the graphic designs of the Haida people there are very similar to the Ainu. Also are their art, costumes and 'looks'. They are 'sea people' and have been there for some 12,000 years and are known for their seamanship, totems and wooden building designs.

Just me thinking out loud, but wow...they look the same to me.

[John C]

A postcard I have from early 1900s (1904, I think) showing the Ainu. There is also a new Museum featuring the Ainu on Hokkaido.

https://ainu-upopoy.jp/en/

John C.

[Baba Yaga]

"According to the person telling the story, A great beam of light reached down out of the sky. Along it, riding upon a bright cloud, came the first living person to set foot on the earth.He was the father of the human race. Notice how this is very similar to UFO sighting stories; a beam of light from the sky, an individual descending in the beam, etc."

 

 Same phenomenon occurred with American Indians. Very coincidental. 

[Jon]

If your going to be precise the Ainu were really the fourth people of Japan, the first were the terminal upper Paleolithic North Eurasians ( say around 30,000 BC to 15 BC)..then you had the Jōmon from around 14,000 to 300 BC…then the Okhotsk and Satsumon people’s that seem to have merged by around 800AD to form the Ainu people…we tend to forget that even native peoples are all migrants and human history is just a story of one wave of migration after another. I did not bother with the early modern humans who were all knocking about from around from around 200,000BC-300,000BC or the archaic humans from way back to 800,000BC..after all we know H. sapiens heidelbergensis was knocking around in china from 600,000BC so no reason H sapient heidelbergenisis was not the first people of Japan.