Colonisation of Hokkaido
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The colonisation of Hokkaido was the process from around the fifteenth century by which the Yamato Japanese took control of Hokkaido and subjugated and assimilated the indigenous Ainu people, whose cu
![Ainu people, by Murase Yoshinori [ja], 1918](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6%E3%83%BB%E6%9D%91%E7%80%AC%E7%BE%A9%E5%BE%B3%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E3%80%8C%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8C%E7%86%8A%E7%A5%AD%E5%B1%8F%E9%A2%A8%E3%80%8D%EF%BC%88%E5%B7%A6%EF%BC%89%E5%B8%82%E7%AB%8B%E5%87%BD%E9%A4%A8%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8%E8%94%B5.jpg/500px-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6%E3%83%BB%E6%9D%91%E7%80%AC%E7%BE%A9%E5%BE%B3%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E3%80%8C%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8C%E7%86%8A%E7%A5%AD%E5%B1%8F%E9%A2%A8%E3%80%8D%EF%BC%88%E5%B7%A6%EF%BC%89%E5%B8%82%E7%AB%8B%E5%87%BD%E9%A4%A8%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8%E8%94%B5.jpg)
Ainu people, by Murase Yoshinori [ja], 1918
A Japanese samurai with a group of Ainu, c. 1775
The Goryōkaku fort in Hakodate, completed 1866, was the headquarters of the Tokugawa loyalist army.
![Omusha ceremony involving the Hidaka Ainu, by Hirasawa Byōzan [ja] c. 19th century](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Hidaka_Ainu%E2%80%94Umsa_by_Hirasawa_By%C5%8Dzan_%28Hakodate_City_Central_Library%29.jpg/500px-Hidaka_Ainu%E2%80%94Umsa_by_Hirasawa_By%C5%8Dzan_%28Hakodate_City_Central_Library%29.jpg)
Omusha ceremony involving the Hidaka Ainu, by Hirasawa Byōzan [ja] c. 19th century
Yamato people
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The Yamato or Wajin, also known as the Japanese, are an East Asian ethnic group that comprises over 98% of the population of Japan. Genetic and anthropometric studies have shown that the Yamato people
Colonisation of Hokkaido
…The colonisation of Hokkaido was the process from around the fifteenth century by which the Yamato Japanese took control of Hokkaido and subjugated and assimilated the indigenous Ainu people, whose culture had developed from around the thirteenth century. The…
Wedding ceremony of the Japanese imperial family (current Emperor Naruhito and current Empress Masako pictured) wearing kimono