A portrait of an Ainu woman from the 1920s.

Ainu-e

Designed by Bikky Sunazawa. The blue symbolizes the sky and ocean, the white symbolizing snow, and the red symbolizing an arrow on fire, the eternal flame of the Ainu soul.

Group of Ainu people. Photo taken in 1904.

Portrait of a present day Ainu man.

As Japanese cotton became more affordable, garments known as chikarkarpe, meaning "our embroidered thing," were developed by substituting cotton for attush (elm-bark cloth); Ainu often used old Japanese kimonos or yukata for the base fabric. The use…

A photo of an Ainu-Japanese family.