Who were the Emishi (the “Barbarians” in Japan)? | History of Japan 50

Who were the Emishi and where did they come from? The beginning of a few episodes on the Emishi, the "other" in Japan.
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“Emishi” sounds like a natural phonological transformation of “Ebisu” according to Japanese pronunciation patterns. (Compare _saburau_ [“to serve”] vs. _samurai_ vs. _de sourou_ [archaic humble copula].) Your guess is as good as mine why they started using those kanji for the word though.

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...and Ebisu come from Hilko, the first disabled child of Izanagi & Izanami. Hilko became fishermen's god Ebisu, according to the legend.

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Wikipedia doesn't know either, but suggests the long beards looked like the whiskers on a prawn, or a borrowing of one of several proto-Ainu terms

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Taira, leader of the Taira clan, was on the side of Minamoto, suppressing the rebellion

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Ever Heard of the Kumaso and Hayato people? There basically the Emishi of the south, near Kyushu

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Taira No Kiyonomori was part of the Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Shirakawa

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It'd be helpful to show Sakhalin Island in the maps on this video as then you can see the other end of the Japanese archipelago, the point where the islands got closest to the Asian mainland where the Jomon and Ainu people might have migrated from the mainland. IIRC Sakhalin people are very much Ainu as well. Also Taira no Kiyomori is Imperialist clan

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