Ainu spirits singing : the living world of Chiri Yukie's Ainu shinʾyōshū / Sarah M. Strong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strong, Sarah Mehlhop, 1947-

Contributor:

Chiri, Yukie, 1903-1922.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Chiri, Yukie, 1903-1922.

Chiri, Yukie.

Chiri, Yukie, 1903-1922. Ainu shinʾyōshū.

Folk songs, Ainu.

Physical Description:

xvi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]

Summary:

Strong (Japanese, Bates College, Maine) offers a study of Yukie's (1903-22) Ainu Shin'yoshu (Collection of Ainu Chants of Spiritual Beings), placing it in the context of Ainu beliefs and history, and their status as an indigenous people that the Japanese government was trying to assimilate. She discusses Yukie and the origins of the book, the living world in it, the Ainu social landscape, weighty animal spirits and important game animals, and symbolic and ordinary animal spirits. The final chapter is a translation of the 13 chants. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Chiri Yukie and the origins of the Ainu shinʾyōshū

The living world of the Ainu shinʾyōshū

The Ainu social landscape

Weighty animal spirits and important game animals

Symbolic and ordinary animal spirits

Chiri Yukie's Ainu shinʾyōshū.

Notes:

Includes English translation of 13 Ainu chants.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

Related Work:

Chiri, Yukie, 1903-1922. Ainu shinʾyōshū. English.

ISBN:

9780824835125

0824835123

OCLC:

715171385