An Ainu ceremony known as Iyomante, in which people shoot arrows at a brown bear cub regarded as a god. It’s based on the belief that sending the bear’s spirits back to the divine world will ...
Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying squirrel, and a host of other creatures. The excerpts below ...
Documentary investigating a film made of the Ainu bear ceremony by Neil Gordon Munro, who studied the Ainu culture for thirty years before settling in Nibutani for the last twelve years of his life.
One Ainu group is petitioning the force and the ... 1 to be displayed on the vertical tail wings of its aircraft. It features a brown bear’s head, a bird’s feathers and an arabesque design ...
YWP animal manager Debbie Porter said the loading had gone "like clockwork". The bears were being kept at the Ainu Cultural Museum when they came to the attention of Wild Welfare. The bears were ...