They have unusual traditions.
Tattooed women with the population of the Ainu. Ainu is an ancient nation, which appeared about 13 thousand years BC. They inhabited the island of Hokkaido (the second largest island of Japan) and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the southern third of Kamchatka and the lower Amur.
The Ainu are not one of the varieties of the Mongoloid race, which since ancient times inhabit this region. Scientists say that the features of their faces more like astrologie or even European. Unlike the Japanese, who were almost beardless men of the Ainu wore a luxuriant beard, which had to hold a special clothespins during the meal.
1. The hallmark of this nation had a tattoo of lips and hands, such as hands and up to elbow.
2. And was tatuirovki exclusively by women and the tattoo was applied too only by women.
3. The skin incisions were performed special ceremonial knife and then cuts smeared with coal.
4. First tattoo was done the girls at the age of 7 years. It was only a dot pattern around the lips. Then every year added a few lines.
5. And finally ended with a long ornament of the groom during the wedding: he drew a “smile”.
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7. Ainu women tattooed on the face denotes their marital status. The patterns on the lips, cheeks and eyelids to determine whether the woman is married and how many children she had.
8. Very diverse tattoo occur on the hands, between the fingers. As well as among other peoples, an abundance of tattoos, women have symbolized its stamina and fertility.
9. When the Japanese stopped this practice, the Ainu believed that it would be giving in to the goddess and will bring misfortune.
10. A despite the ban, continued to follow ancient custom.
11. In addition to the “smile” wavy lines was tatuirovki the area around the eyebrows, and the hand decorated pattern.
12. The last fully tattooed all the rules of the Ainu woman died in 1998.
13. Currently some women of nationalities applied a temporary tattoo during festivals and ceremonies.
14. The traditional religion of the Ainu is also practically disappeared, only practiced the ceremony of worship bears, and that is mainly as a tourist attraction.
