Case file · Folklore / legend
Chiri Yukie's songs of the Ainu gods
In 1923 Chiri Yukie, a 19-year-old Ainu woman from Noboribetsu, published 'Ainu Shin'yōshū', kamuy yukar (songs of the gods) told in the first person by owls, foxes and other kamuy.
1923 CE · 42.41, 141.11 · status: official
The account
The book, printed with her Japanese translation beside the romanised Ainu, records how the kamuy visit the human world in animal form. She died of heart failure the night she finished the proofs.