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The Recurring ‘Discovery’ of Hokkaido and the Ainu : Three Decades of Nineteenth-Century British Travelogues

With the full-scale colonization of Hokkaido, home to the indigenous Ainu people, by the Japanese Meiji government (1868-1912), unprecedented ethnographic opportunities emerged for Western scientists and adventure-seekers. Literally dozens of such individuals “discovered” information about the Ainu and their homeland during this period, introducing European and American audiences to the subject th