Unknown pages of history of the Ainu. Review of the book Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev by Vasily V. Shchepkin
https://doi.org/10.55105/2500-2872-2023-3-112-119
Abstract
The article reviews the book by Vasily Shchepkin Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev (2022). The book is based on 18th and 19th-century Japanese manuscript materials and blockprints about the Ainu people, which for a long time remained without proper attention from the research community. It presents not only translations of the manuscripts, but also analyzes the history of their creation and examines the evolution of the image of the Ainu in Japanese society. Particular attention is paid to the personality of Alexander V. Grigoriev, who assembled the Ainu collection of rare materials in 1879–1880.
Keywords
Ainu,
Ainu culture,
written sources,
Tokugawa period,
ethnographic collection,
Hokkaido,
Russia-Japan relations
Supporting agencies: this research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant number 22-28-01705), https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01705/
References
1. Shchepkin, V.V. (2022). Ainy glazami yapontsev: neizvestnaya kollektsiya A.V. Grigor’eva [Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev]. Saint Petersburg: Arka. (In Russian).
2. Tsagelnik, T. (2020). Discourse of Silencing in the Context of the 150th Anniversary of the Naming of Hokkaido. Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers: HUSCAP, March 31, 125–143. Retrieved May 20, 2023, from https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/77222/1/8.pdf
Review
For citations:
Yuklyaevskikh E.S. Unknown pages of history of the Ainu. Review of the book Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev by Vasily V. Shchepkin. Japanese Studies in Russia. 2023;(3):112-119. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.55105/2500-2872-2023-3-112-119
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