Tōhoku region
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The Tōhoku region, Northeast region, Ōu region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It consists of six prefectures: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima
Mōtsū-ji portrait of three generations of the Northern Fujiwara. The top is Fujiwara no Kiyohira, the right is Fujiwara no Motohira, the left figure is Fujiwara no Hidehira.
Cast iron teapots like this one sit atop stoves during the long winters in Tōhoku.
Aizuwakamatsu Castle after the Battle of Aizu, 1868 photograph
Mount Iwate dominates the city of Morioka
Ainu people
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The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, su
Tōhoku region
…along with Kantō region, was called Azuma (吾妻, あづま) and was the region of Honshu occupied by the indigenous peoples known as the Emishi, and, later, the Ainu. The area was historically the Dewa and the Mutsu or Michinoku regions, a term first recorded in the Hitachi no kuni Fudoki (常陸国風土記) (654). There is…
Ainu people in front of a traditional building in Shiraoi, Hokkaido
Hokkaido Ainu clan leader, 1930
![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
A Japanese samurai with a group of Ainu, c. 1775