Download or read book Harukor written by Katsuichi Honda and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Ainu life over five hundred years ago, before Japanese invasions nearly killed off this indigenous society. No written records remain, other than Japanese observations, but the author has relied on surviving oral accounts and extensive study of anthropological and archeological discoveries to construct a representative woman's life story.