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Bibliography of the Ainu

Last updated September 30, 2025

This is a bibliography of works on the Ainu people of modern Japan and the Russian Far East.

Overview

Poisson, Barbara Aoki (1 April 2002). The Ainu of Japan . Lerner Publications. ISBN 978-0-8225-4176-9.

Politics

Siddle, Richard (12 August 1996). Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-13228-2.
Sjöberg, Katarina (1 January 1993). The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5401-7.

Anthropology

Batchelor, John (1892). The Ainu of Japan: The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. Religious Tract Society.
Batchelor, John (1901). The Ainu and Their Folk-lore. Religious Tract Society.
De La Rupelle, Guy (2005). Kayak And Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir: Among the Ainu of Hokkaido. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34644-8.
Landor, A. H. Savage (1893). Alone With the Hairy Ainu, or 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle In Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. London: John Murray.
Piłsudski, Bronisław (1998). Majewicz, Alfred F. (ed.). The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski: The aborigines of Sakhalin. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-010928-3.
Starr, Frederick (1904). The Ainu group at the Saint Louis exposition. The Open court publishing company.
Tajima A, Hayami M, Tokunaga K, Juji T, Matsuo M, Marzuki S, Omoto K, Horai S (March 2, 2004). "Genetic origins of the Ainu inferred from combined DNA analyses of maternal and paternal lineages". Journal of Human Genetics. 49 (4): 187–193. doi: 10.1007/s10038-004-0131-x . PMID 14997363.
Yamada, Takako (2001). The world view of the Ainu: nature and cosmos reading from language. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0732-3.
Noboru A, Tsuneo K, Ryohei T, Hideaki K, Ken-ichi S (October 11, 2017). "Ethnic derivation of the Ainu inferred from ancient mitochondrial DNA data". American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 165 (1): 139–148. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23338 . PMC 5765509 . PMID 29023628.

History

Frey, Christopher J. (2007). Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-century Hokkaido, Japan. ISBN 978-0-549-35460-4.
Peng, Fred C. C.; Geiser, Peter (1977). The Ainu, the past in the present. Bunka Hyoron.

Historiography

Refsing, Kirsten (8 November 2002). Early European Writings on Ainu Culture: Religion and Folklore. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-7007-1486-5.

Culture

William W. Fitzhugh; Chisato O. Dubreuil (1999). Ainu: spirit of a northern people. Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History). Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97912-0.
Patia M. Rosenberg (1967). Ainu Music: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment ... for the Degree of Master of Arts in Far Eastern Studies. University of Michigan.
Traditional Ainu Music. N.H.K. 1965.
Josef Kreiner, ed. (1993). European studies on Ainu language and culture. Iudicium-Verl. ISBN 978-3-89129-486-4.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (31 August 1981). Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-23636-2.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (1974). The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-006926-0.
John Batchelor; Kingo Miyabe (1898). Ainu economic plants.
Matsu Kannari. Kutune Shirka, The Ainu Epic. Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1-60620-098-8.
Neil Gordon Munro (February 1979). Ainu, creed and cult. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-21151-5.
Basil Hall Chamberlain; John Batchelor (1887). The Language, Mythology, and Geographical Nomenclature of Japan Viewed in the Light of Aino Studies. Imperial University. p. 1.

Language

John Batchelor (1908). An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, including A Grammar of the Ainu Language. Methodist Publishing House.
Basil Hall Chamberlain; John Batchelor (1887). Ainu grammar. Imperial University. p. 77.
Hattori, Shirō, ed. (1964). アイヌ語方言辞典[An Ainu dialect dictionary with Ainu, Japanese, and English indexes]. Tokyo: 岩波書店.
萱野茂 (October 2002). 萱野茂のアイヌ語辞典 (in Japanese). 三省堂. ISBN 978-4-385-17052-7.
Miller, Roy Andrew (1967). The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle.
Murasaki, Kyōko (1977). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Texts and Glossary. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
Murasaki, Kyōko (1978). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Grammar. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
中川裕 (February 1995). アイヌ語千歳方言辞典[The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Chitosei Dialect] (in Japanese). 草風館. ISBN 978-4-883-23078-5.
Bronisław Piłsudski (1998). Alfred F. Majewicz (ed.). The Aborigines of Sakhalin. The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski. Vol. I. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 792. ISBN 3-11-010928-X.
Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu Language: The Morphology and Syntax of the Shizunai Dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. ISBN 87-7288-020-1.
Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36918-5.
田村すず子 (August 1996). アイヌ語沙流方言辞典[The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Saru Dialect] (in Japanese). 草風館. ISBN 978-4-883-23093-8.
Tamura, Suzuko (2000). The Ainu Language. Tokyo: Sanseido. ISBN 4-385-35976-8.
Vovin, Alexander (1992). "The origins of the Ainu language". The Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics. Chulalongkorn University: 672–686.
Vovin, Alexander (1993). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-09905-0.
Vovin, Alexander (August 1997). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-9-004-09905-0.
Vovin, Alexander (2008). "Man'yōshū to Fudoki ni Mirareru Fushigina Kotoba to Jōdai Nihon Retto ni Okeru Ainugo no Bunpu" [Strange Words in the Man'yoshū and the Fudoki and the Distribution of the Ainu Language in the Japanese Islands in Prehistory](PDF). International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-11. Retrieved 2014-09-26.

Proposed classifications

Bengtson, John D. (2006). "A multilateral look at Greater Austric". Mother Tongue. 11: 219–258.
Georg, Stefan; Michalove, Peter A.; Ramer, Alexis Manaster; Sidwell, Paul J. (1999). "Telling general linguists about Altaic" . Journal of Linguistics. 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 65–98. doi:10.1017/s0022226798007312. S2CID 144613877.
Greenberg, Joseph H. (2000–2002). Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3812-2.
Patrie, James (1982). The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0724-3.
Shafer, R. (1965). "Studies in Austroasian II". Studia Orientalia. 30 (5).
Street, John C. (1962). "Review of N. Poppe, Vergleichende Grammatik der altaischen Sprachen, Teil I (1960)". Language. 38: 92–98. doi:10.2307/411195. JSTOR 411195.

Articles

Crossley-Holland, Peter, ed. (1968). "Music of the Ainu". Proceedings of the Centennial Workshop on Ethnomusicology held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 19-23, 1967.

H.R.M. (1894-01-11). "Fresh Light on the Ainu" . Nature. 49 (1263): 248. Bibcode:1894Natur..49..248H. doi: 10.1038/049248b0 .

Sternberg, Leo (1906). "The Inau Cult of the Ainu". In Laufer, Berthold (ed.). Boas anniversary volume: anthropological papers written in honor of Franz Boas ... New York: G.E. Stechert & Co.

Gallery

Ainu mask carved by J. Haraya, 1947, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, wood, at the East–West Center, University of Hawaii

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Bibliography of the Ainu

Contents

Overview

Politics

Anthropology

History

Historiography

Culture

Language

Articles

Gallery

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