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Ainu

ˈeɪˌnu
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ainu
    One of a peculiar race found primarily in Hokkaido, in the northern part of the empire of Japan, the Kurile Islands, and nearby. They are believed to be the native inhabitants of the Japanese islands. The Ainus are stout and short, with hairy bodies. Also called Aino and hairy Ainu.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Ainu
    See Aino.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Said to be the native name for man

Usage in literature

Now, what do you think of these Ainu jugs? "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen

In Japan the maiden of Ainu race feels the same impulse. "Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6)" by Havelock Ellis

The Ainu are the hairiest of races, and there is nothing which they consider so beautiful as hair. "Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6)" by Havelock Ellis

These early corridor-tombs are evidently not the work of the Ainu, the aborigines of Japan, but of the Japanese invaders who conquered them. "Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders" by T. Eric Peet

Aino (Ainu), 45, 191. "The Number Concept" by Levi Leonard Conant

Now, what do you think of those Ainu jugs? "The House of Souls" by Arthur Machen

The second great failure is the tragic failure of an entire race of people; that of the Ainu Indians of Japan. "Flash-lights from the Seven Seas" by William L. Stidger

We should ask what a Hairy Ainu was, and how hairy he was, and above all what sort of Ainu he was. "What I Saw in America" by G. K. Chesterton

The Ainu and their Folklore (London, 1901). "Introduction to the History of Religions" by Crawford Howell Toy

Goodrich, V. K.: Ainu Family Life and Religion, Popular Science Monthly, November, 1888. "The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races" by Sanger Brown, II