Our Land Was A Forest: An Ainu Mem…. Our Land Was A Forest: An Ainu Memoir (Transitions--Asia and the Pacific) 1st Edition. This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of HokkaidÅ, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese.
Web A brilliantly told memoir with heartbreaking honest giving an inside look at the life of an Ainu child as times are changing. Particularly heartbreaking is reading how the author sees his family customs forgotten and the heartbreak this causes his father, as he is one of the last to receive the proper Ainu burial rites as not enough people remember the.
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