The bear festival and the world of inau in Hokkaido as described by Matsuda Denjūrō 1799–1800 (Based on “Tales of the Northern Barbarians”) by A. V. Klimov

“…The translation was carried out from the published text of the Japanese manuscript in the ten-volume series of written monuments titled Collection of Historical Materials About the Life of the Common People of Japan (Nihon shomin seikatsu shiryō shūsei 日本庶民生活史料集成) in the fourth volume [Matsuda 1969, pp. 77–175]. …”
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