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*''Japanese'': オムシャ ''(omusha)''
''Omusha'' were ritual meetings between representatives of [[Ainu]] communities and [[Matsumae han]] retainers. They stemmed out of a traditional Ainu practice known as ''umusa'', in which gifts were exchanged as a polite custom when meeting someone again that one had met before. However, over the course of the [[Edo period]], these ritual meetings and gift exchanges evolved from something performed voluntarily by the Ainu out of a sense of tradition, propriety, and etiquette, into something the Japanese obliged them to perform each time Matsumae domain retainers or officials made their annual visit to a given village.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Hokkaido Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52225724942/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Culture]]
''Omusha'' were ritual meetings between representatives of [[Ainu]] communities and [[Matsumae han]] retainers. They stemmed out of a traditional Ainu practice known as ''umusa'', in which gifts were exchanged as a polite custom when meeting someone again that one had met before. However, over the course of the [[Edo period]], these ritual meetings and gift exchanges evolved from something performed voluntarily by the Ainu out of a sense of tradition, propriety, and etiquette, into something the Japanese obliged them to perform each time Matsumae domain retainers or officials made their annual visit to a given village.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Hokkaido Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52225724942/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Culture]]
