Exploring the Lands of the Ainu: Biratori

The Ainu are the indigenous peoples of Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido, and surrounding areas, who have their own language, and beliefs, including that spirits reside in all things.
In this series, we visit areas in Hokkaido with deep connections to the Ainu living there and showcase their prayers, dances, and traditional ceremonies passed down through generations.
In part 2 of this 5-part series, we visit the town of Biratori in Sarugun, Hokkaido, with a population of about 4,600 people. Blessed with beautiful nature, the town is full of traditional Ainu traditional crafts.
In the summer, the traditional ceremony of "Cipsanke" was held to launch new canoes. In addition to the preparations as well as the ceremony itself, this episode focuses on the young Ainu people living in the area today and how traditions are being passed on into the future.
Biratori is home to many of the representative traditional crafts of the Ainu people such as "Nibutani Ita" and "Nibutani Attus", as well as the "Nibutani Ainu Cultural Museum" and “Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum" which house valuable Ainu cultural items. Through these facilities and more, we will explore the beautiful spiritual world of the Ainu people, woven by the history of their culture and artisanship.
First aired on NHK WORLD-JAPAN/jibtv on 2022/12/30.
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[@EnreiReina]

This is such a necessary video, I hate that it only has 2.7k views, it deserves at least 200,000 and more!
Thank you to all who created this. Perchance do you have this in Japanese (not dubbed from the interviewees) because I’d love to share this with my Japanese audience.
While foreign tourists to Japan will be interested, honestly this is so needed domestically to Japanese people themselves, just to learn, gain interest and promote and support the preservation of an indigenous group in their own country first off.
I’ll share this one too for English speakers, but would love a link or connection to any Japanese language version too with the same lovely editing, Ainu words and positive tone of this lovely documentary.

[@Peonyprashanti]

I dream to visit my motherland