It is particularly worth mentioning is the Ainu ancient poetry "jukkala" (Yukar), with its unique form of folk literature and grand ideological content, is well known in the literary world, it is even considered one of the world 's five narrative poems. Hokkaido dense forests, vast wilderness and the blue sea is the Ainu living home, before Yamato arrived, they lived a rich and peaceful life. Meiji two years (1869) in July, Japanese emperor Meiji set up a "pioneer" in Hokkaido, a large scale organization and people in Hokkaido to carry out development, and into the army. Since then, the Ainu quiet life was broken. In 1871, the Japanese government has formulated the household registration law, the Ainu were forcibly incorporated into the Japanese national household, become legal Japanese. The Japanese government implemented the policy of national assimilation of the Ainu, forcing them to lose their national language and learning Japanese, change the Ainu people for thousands of years of ethnic customs and habits, they were forced to give up the fishing and hunting life into the life of farming. After the so-called "pioneering" and "development" the Japanese government for more than 100 years, the Ainu living area gradually retreat to a number of settlements in the corner of Hokkaido. In recent decades, with the …show more content…
Because in history has not been able to form their own independent state with the regime, the Ainu is difficult to organize effective resistance to invasion and colonial and people. The Ainu history, and is large and people struggle and compromise basically, while also being large and discrimination and assimilation of history. According to the relevant records in the eighth Century Japanese Ancient Literature "in Japan", in 658 ad, Emperor Qi (566--661) sent 180 ship warship "Yesso" against the north, will cross island "Ainu" to "expel" (now Tsugaru city) on the beach, the the so-called "Ainu" refers to the ainu. According to the Kamakura shogunate era (1185 - 1333) the "mirror" my wife records, Hokkaido earlier in the "Ainu" to the big and people are those who are sentenced to exile criminals and defeat the fugitive samurai. [3] is also from this era, the interaction between large and Ainu people gradually became frequent, have entered the "Ainu" to the big and people, or reclaim land, or operating business, so since ancient times for hunting, gathering has great impact on the traditional way of life of the Ainu people, and caused resentment and dissatisfaction with their. Along with the increasing of immigrants in Hokkaido and people, the contradiction between the Ainu people and people and increasingly intensified, and finally in 1457 the outbreak of the great conflict, which is known as the "Xiaman Ke Yi (Koshamainn) of the war, the