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Originally Posted by john70t

Early Japanese (Ainu) Jomon who live mostly in the north island of Hokkaido these days.
It's interesting that Toshiro Mifune was so hirsute but was widely popular.
The first pic might be a halfu or visitor..almost european.

Toshiro Mifune was amazing. I know that Kurosawa gets a lot of praise, and I'm sure he was a great film maker, but I'm not sure if he'd be as well known without Toshiro Mifune.

I have been to Hokkaido, but I don't think we went to an Ainu village or anything like that.





The first time that we lived in Japan, I was around 9, and some neighbors took me out to the boonies off base where we dug for stuff. We found Jomon pottery sherds.

And it was possible to find impressively knapped flint and obsidian points and knives in the area. I almost stepped on a ~4" obsidian knife on base once, and my buddy saw it and snagged it. I'd stepped right over it.