On display at the Tokyo Station Gallery are “Whole-Body Listening (detail)” (right, 2002, housed by Tsuruga Resort Co.) and other wood carvings of animals, as well as Ainu ancestors. (Takumi Ono) ...

For three years from 2011, he studied the Ainu language and learned traditional craft skills. He now demonstrates wood carvings and shares his knowhow in a hands-on program. Yamamichi is pleased ...

For 35 years, Kamui Mintara (Playground of the Gods), by Ainu sculptor Nuburi Toko and his son Shusei, has stood on Burnaby Mountain as a testament to the “goodwill” between Burnaby and its sister ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky ... Sunazawa in its creation are carved into the back of its ...