To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Yukie Chiri, an Ainu who was instrumental in putting her people's oral history on paper, a new edition of her famous story collection has been published.
Chiri died in 1922 at the age of 19 after she completed editing a significant landmark in Ainu literature, "Collected Stories of the Ainu Gods."
It was the first time the rich oral traditions of the Ainu, who had no system of writing, were put into print.