Indigenous Ainu of the North of Japan

Indigenous Ainu of the North of Japan

Indigenous Ainu of the North of Japan


In Ainu's faith, God is in the great nature .


The ritual of killing the bears they kept and sending them back to the original world.


A woman receives a string from her mother or grandmother.
She was wearing for life without showing it to anyone.

Ainu has no letters.

It is believed that after death the deads make a village and live in the same way as the world.