ainu

Describes the history, modern and traditional cultural practices and economies, geographic background, and ongoing oppression and struggles of the Ainu.

Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.

In this folktale from Japan's Ainu people, a pet puppy and fox retrieve their young master's good luck charm from the ogre who has stolen it.