"Meko Oyasi", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama

• Main Author: Elia Dal Corso
• Other Authors: Anna Bugaeva, DAL CORSO, Elia
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: De Gruyter Mouton 2022
• Subjects: Settore L-OR/22 - Lingue e Letterature del Giappone e della Corea; Settore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia e Linguistica; Haru; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/3742786; https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859-022

In this chapter, we would like to present a folktale of the Sakhalin Ainu tradition narrated by Haru Fujiyama, who was a speaker of the Rayciska dialect of Sakhalin Ainu and also one of the last native speakers of this Ainu variety. The folktale entitled meko oyasi ‘the cat spirits’ was originally i...