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Kayak and Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir: Among the Ainu of Hokkaido

by Guy De La Rupelle

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A six-week journey through Hokkaido and Ainu Mosir

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A six-week journey through Hokkaido and Ainu Mosir

Guy De La Rupelle combines overland travel, camping, and folding-kayak excursions to explore Hokkaido, known by its Indigenous inhabitants as Ainu Mosir, or “People of the Quiet Land.” After earlier motorcycle visits and brief encounters with Ainu people, he returns for six weeks with a more sustained purpose: meeting Ainu communities and considering their contemporary circumstances. Lakes, rivers, and coastline provide the route through a northern Japanese landscape, while the book frames its cultural perspective through the voices of the people he meets. It offers a travel-centered entry into a region of Japan that receives comparatively limited attention in Western travel writing.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Travel readers interested in Hokkaido beyond conventional Japan itineraries
  • Readers seeking a journey that combines paddling, camping, and cultural encounters
  • Those interested in the Ainu and contemporary Indigenous life in northern Japan

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HokkaidoAinu culture and identityKayaking and campingTravel writingIndigenous voices

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Book overview

Kayak and Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir takes the reader into Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The native inhabitants called this island Ainu Mosir, which means People of the Quiet Land. Guy de la Rupelle after having been to Hokkaido several times by motorcycle and meeting furtively these Ainu decides to take a longer look at who they are exactly and their current situation.

To give a sense of purpose to his journey he packs two folding kayaks in his car, all his camping gear and spends six weeks meeting as many Ainu as he can, camps and paddles in the lakes, rivers and along the coastline of this amazing island, certainly the last wilderness left in Japan.

It has been said that a good travel book is one in which the reader will discover new things as he travels with the writer. This is certainly the case. The reader will get a better sense of who the Ainu are through their voices as well as read about a part of Japan seldom written about by Westerners.

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