Emishi

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient ethnic group of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan. historical, plural, plural-only

    "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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ebisuezo

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"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."

Etymology

From Japanese 蝦夷 (Emishi, literally “shrimp barbarians”).

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