Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Kirsten Refsing, University of Hong Kong.

• Volume I: Introduction ‘Moeurs et usages dcs ainos’. Journal Asiatique 2. Ser. 1, p.73-80, 1828. ‘Remarks on the Island of Yezo’. Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 6, p.7-19, 1859. Les Ainos - Origine, langue, moeurs, religion. Paris, 1863. ‘On the Western Shores of Volcano Bay’. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 80, p. 173–80, 1866. The Ainos or Hairy Men of Yesso, Saghalien and the Kurile Islands. New Haven: Tuttle, 1868. “The Ainjos of Yezo’. The Phoenix, 7, p.3-4, 1870. Veniukof, M. ‘On the Island of Sakhalin’. (Translated from the Russian ‘Voyenni Sbornik’ by Captain Spalding, 104th Regiment), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42, p.373-88, 1872. ‘A Journey in Yezo’. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42, p.77 142, 1872. ‘Notes on the East, North East and West Coasts of Yezo’. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 42, p.343-54, 1872a. ‘The Ainos’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Briain and Ireland 2, p.248-54, 1872b. Volume II: ‘Uber die Ainos’. Zeitsckriftfur Ethnologie 4, p.23-30. English Translation: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Great Britain and Ireland 3, 1874, p.l29-35, 1872. ‘Notes of a Journey in the Island of Yezo’. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 18, 1874, pp. 226–41, 1874. ‘On the Ainos’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 3, p.233-44, 1874. Bousquet, G. ‘Une excursion dans le nord du Japon’. Revue des deux Mondes 45 (3. Ser 7), p. 175–218, 1875. Notes on the Kuril Islands, London: J. Murray, 1897. ‘A Visit to the Ainos’. Church Missionary intelligencer 2, p.218-24 & 274-80, 1877. ‘Das Ajnovolk’. Milteilungen der Kaiserlichen und Koniglichen Geographischen Akademie zu Wien N.S. 14, p.220-33, 1881a. Volume III: ‘Die Ainos’. Milteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Natur-und Vdlkerkunde Ostasiens 3, no 26, p.220-50 & 255-6, 1881. ‘Die Ainos’. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 14, p. 180–92, 1882. Dixon, J.M. ‘The Tsushikari Ainos’. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 11, p.39-50, 1883. The Ainos of Japan. Washington: GPO, 1890. ‘Un coin du Japon: Les Ainos’. Le Courrier d’Haiphong, 30/6, p. 1–2, 1892. ‘Ainu Family Life and Religion’. Popular Science Monthly 34, p.81-93, 1893. Life with Transsiberian Savages. London: Longmans, Greens, and Co, 1893. ‘Ein Besuch bei den Aino’. Globus, vol 64, p.41-7, 1893. ‘The Ainos of Northern Japan’. Outing, Nov., p.l 13-9, 1894. Volume IV: ‘Auf Yezo’. Westermanns Illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefie, 81, p.228-43, 1896. ‘In Aino-Land’. Century, vol 34. New York, p.324-49, 1897. Laufer, B. ‘The Jesup North Pacific Expedition’. Science N. S. 9, p.732-34, 1899. ‘Among the Hairy Ainus of Yezo’. Wide World Magazine, p.49-57, 1899. The Ainu group at the St Louis Exposition. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1904. ‘Ein Besuch bei den Aino’. Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift 36, p.4-15 (Beiblatt 1), 1909. ‘With the Hairy Ainus’. Travel and Exploration 3, p.377-84, 1910. ‘Eine Rundreise’ and ‘Ainu von Shiraoi’. Slimmen aus Maria Laach, p.188-206, 544-59, 1913. ‘Visit with the Ainos of Volcano Bay’. An Address before the Tippecanoe County Medical Society, December, 1916. ‘Chez les ainos.’. La Geographie 67, no 2, p.96-103, 1937. Volume V Petticoat Vagabond in Ainu Land and up and down Eastern Asia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942. ‘Steps by the Way’, typed manuscript, [1943].