Untitled. Part 1 : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 25 VIII.--THE LEGEND OF THE LADY OF KUNNEPET. (A LEGEND OF LOVE AND WAR.) There was a person who was reared as a slave1 at p. 26 Shinutapka.2 Now, once upon a time he heard it noised abroad that there was a lady residing at Kunnepet3 who was famous...
Next : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next XI.--WHY THERE ARE SNAKES IN AINU-LAND, AND WHY THEY SWALLOW FROGS. The following is a tale of ancient times:-- The snake said, "I cannot stay in this country for there is no food; I will, therefore, migrate to a foreign land." Thereupon the frog replied...
An Ainu Legend Of The Large Trout : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next III.--AN AINU LEGEND OF THE LARGE TROUT. PIU-HAM-PIU.* 1. At the source of the Saru river there is a large lake. 2. In this lake there was a monster trout which was so big that it used to flap its ("pectoral") fins at one end and wave its tail...
Specimens Of Ainu Folk Lore : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Next p. 111 SPECIMENS OF AINU FOLK-LORE. BY THE REV. JNO. BATCHELOR. ["Read 14th March, 1888."] The following specimens of Ainu folk-lore form a small portion of matter which the writer has himself collected, from time to time, during a period of nearly six years...
Untitled : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 216 X.--THE LEGEND OF HOW THE YOUNGER SISTER OF THE WOLF-GOD WAS GIVEN TO ME ("TO WIFE".) I was brought up by my elder sister and always remained at home. I was reared in this wise:-- The iron1 and wooden beams ("of our house") were painted in diverse...
Legend Of Kotan Utunnai : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 40 IX.--LEGEND OF KOTAN UTUNNAI.1 I was brought up by my elder sister2 and was always kept at home. I was reared in this way:--The house in which I was kept was a small one made of grass. While being brought up, I heard a noise of war as if the gods...
The Legend Of The Lady Of Kunnepet : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous XII.--WHY WESTERN YEZO IS SO ROUGH AND DANGEROUS. "This is the way in which the maker of places is said have created the world.1 He and his younger sister made it between them; the sister's portion was the Western part of Yezo while the male deity made...
An Ainu Legend Of A Famine : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next I.--AN AINU LEGEND OF A FAMINE. INUSA-INUSA.* 1. There was a woman who was ever sitting by the window and doing some kind of needle-work or other; p. 113 2. In the window1 of the house there was a large cup filled to the brim with wine, upon which...
An Ainu Tradition Concerning Okikurumi And Samai : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 124 IV.--AN AINU TRADITION CONCERNING OKIKURUMI AND SAMAI. TUSUNABANU* 1. Okikurumi1 and Samai2 came to harpoon the sword-fish. 2. And we waited for them at the fishing place. 3. When they came they effectually harpooned a large fish. 4. From this...
Legend Of Okikurumi In Love : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 129 V.--LEGEND OF OKIKURUMI IN LOVE. The following ridiculous legend of the hero Okikurumi in love with an Ainu maiden was told me some four years ago by an old man who has, I believe, since passed away. It is a curious production altogether...
Another Legend Of A Famine : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 119 II.--ANOTHER LEGEND OF A FAMINE. The following curious lines were sung to me by an aged Ainu to whom I had just been explaining the dangers and evils of drinking too much wine, and to whom I had been endeavouring to show how much better it is...
Poiyaumbe : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next VII.--POIYAUMBE* If any student of philology is desirous of seeing what the ancient language of the Ainu was really like, he may surely find it in the text of this tradition. Many of the words here used are never heard now excepting in the like...
A Legend Of Okikurumi And His Wife Teaching : Sacred Texts Japan Ainu Index Previous Next p. 136 VI.--A LEGEND OF OKIKURUMI AND HIS WIFE TEACHING THE AINU HOW TO FELL TREES. I suppose there are very few persons now residing in Japan who doubt that the Ainu once inhabited, at all events, the whole of Japan proper, north of Sendai. And, indeed...
