Emishi
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Etymology
From Japanese 蝦夷 (Emishi, literally “shrimp barbarians”).
Noun
Emishi pl (plural only)
- (historical) An ancient ethnic group of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan.
- 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:
- This area was one of the last pieces of tribal land to be taken from the indigenous Emishi, descendants of the Jōmon people, who had lived there from prehistoric times until they were defeated by the Japanese Imperial Army in the eighth century.
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