Japan: 'Ainu Woman', from Ezo Shima Kikan ('Unusual Views of Ezo [Hokkaido]'), painted handscroll, Hata Awagimaro (1764-1808), 1799

The Ezo Shima Kikan by Hata Awagimaro, completed in Kansei 11 (1799) is considered the most notable work depicting the contemporaneous lives of the Ainu.

The Ainu or in historical Japanese texts Ezo, are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido, and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands).

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