Yukar

Yukar (Ainu: ユカㇻ) are Ainu sagas that form a long rich tradition of oral literature. In older periods, the epics were performed by both men and women; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Ainu culture was in decline, women were generally the most skillful performers. Traditional tales describe floating worlds with Ainu mosir, or the land of the humans (as opposed to kamuy mosir, the land of the gods), resting on the back of a fish whose movements cause earthquakes.^[1]

^ Donald L. Philippi (1979). Songs of gods, songs of humans : the epic tradition of the Ainu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7069-1. OCLC 904547563.

[:0-1] Donald L. Philippi (1979). Songs of gods, songs of humans : the epic tradition of the Ainu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7069-1. OCLC 904547563.

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