The Indigenous Japanese artist will talk about her artistic practice following a song performance at Art Basel Hong Kong, ...

Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death ... Sunazawa’s work started gaining traction in art circles after his woodcarvings were displayed in exhibitions ...

David Ainu'u is an artist who was born in 1999. How much does a David Ainu'u cost? The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "David AINU'U draws Setareki BITUNIYATA Drawing created on March ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Ainu people hunted and foraged for edible wild plants, coexisting with the natural environment. They produced powerful, beautiful folk art and craftworks, and they practiced many seasonal ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

One Ainu group is petitioning the force and the ... a professor of arts law at Musashino Art University. “But recently, there has been a debate that it should be protected as the intellectual ...