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Hokkaido characters, the Glossary

The, also known as or, are a set of characters discovered around 1886 on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.^[1]

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History of Hokkaido
Jindai moji
Undeciphered writing systems

Abe no Hirafu

was a Japanese military commander, strategist, and politician of the Asuka period.

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The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians. Hokkaido characters and Ainu people are history of Hokkaido.

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Aomori Prefecture

(a̠o̞mo̞ɾʲikẽ̞ɴ) is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Ōe Taku

was a samurai, bureaucrat, politician, entrepreneur and social activist in the late Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan.

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Baekje

Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Emishi

The (also called Ebisu and Ezo), were a people who lived in parts of Honshū region of Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.

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Enomoto Takeaki

Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.

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Hirata Atsutane

was a Japanese scholar, conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku (nativist) studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion.

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Hokkaidō Development Commission

The, sometimes referred to as Hokkaidō Colonization Office or simply Kaitakushi, was a government agency in early Meiji Japan. Hokkaido characters and Hokkaidō Development Commission are history of Hokkaido.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Hokkaido University

, or, is a public research university in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Hokuriku region

The is located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Iboshi Hokuto

was an Ainu waka poet and social activist.

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Ishikawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island.

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Iwanai District, Hokkaido

is a district located in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jōmon period

In Japanese history, the is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BC, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

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Jindai moji

Jindai moji or Kamiyo moji (Japanese: 神代文字 "characters of the Age of the Gods") are forged characters purported to have been used in ancient Japan. Hokkaido characters and Jindai moji are Japanese writing system.

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John Milne

John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.

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Jurchen people

Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen,; 女真, Nǚzhēn) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. Hokkaido characters and Kanji are Japanese writing system.

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Khitan people

The Khitan people (Khitan small script) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.

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Kokugaku

Kokugaku (label, label; literally "national study") was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period.

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Korpokkur

Korpokkur (コㇿポックㇽ; translit), also written Koro-pok-kuru, korobokkuru, korbokkur, or koropokkur, koro-pok-guru, are a race of small people in folklore of the Ainu people of the northern Japanese islands.

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Kyōsuke Kindaichi

was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect.

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Local history

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Mishihase

The, also read as Ashihase and Shukushin, were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived along the northern portion of the coast of the Sea of Japan.

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Mohe people

The Mohe, Malgal, or Mogher, or Mojie, were historical groups of people that once occupied parts of what's now Northeast Asia during late antiquity.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Old Turkic script

The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.

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Otaru

is a city and port in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo.

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Rock art

In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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San'in region

The is an area in the southwest of Honshū, the main island of Japan.

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Satsumon culture

The is a partially agricultural, archeological culture of northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido (700–1200 CE) that has been identified as Emishi, as a Japanese-Emishi mixed culture, as the incipient modern Ainu, or with all three synonymously.

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Sōya District, Hokkaido

is a district located in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Seal script

Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

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Sennacherib's Annals

Sennacherib's Annals are the annals of the Assyrian king Sennacherib.

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Shakotan District, Hokkaido

is a district located in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.

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Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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Suzu, Ishikawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Tohoku University

is a public research university in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

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Tokuma Shoten

is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Tomari, Hokkaido

is a village located in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Tondemo-bon

means "outrageous" or "preposterous" + "book" in Japanese.

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Torii Ryūzō

Ryuzo Torii (鳥居龍藏; May 4, 1870 – January 14, 1953) was a Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist, and folklorist.

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Tungusic languages

The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples.

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Washi

is traditional Japanese paper processed by hand using fibers from the inner bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub (Edgeworthia chrysantha), or the paper mulberry (kōzo) bush.

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