very interested in Ainu music, and often utilized it in his film scores such as the famous Farou Island chant in King Kong vs. Godzilla. Oki Kano, a tonkori performer and singer, known for his fusion group, Oki Dub Ainu Band. Marewrew IMERUAT (meaning "lightning" in the Ainu language) is a music group formed in 2011 by composer and pianist Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦正志) and vocalist Mina (Mina Sakai, born in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan) of Ainu ancestry. Mina sings in Ainu, Japanese and English. Hare Daisuke is a prominent mukkuri performer who has played and recorded with Saga Haruhiko and the late Umeko Ando. Umeko Ando was a famous Ainu singer and Mukkuri performer and recording artist. References Sources Tanimoto, Kazuyuki. "To Live is to Sing." Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Ed. William Fitzhugh and C.O. Dubrueil. Washington, D.C.: University of Washington Press in assoc. Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1999. Tanimoto, Kazuyuki."Music of the Ainu, Nivkhi, and Uilta." The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Eds. R.C. Provine, Y. Tokumaru, and J.L. Witzleben. New York: Routledge, 2002. Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). . Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1974. Phillipi, Donald. Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1979. Takakura, Shinichiro. "The Ainu of Northern Japan: A Study in Conquest and Acculturation." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 4th part. 50 (1960). Siddle, Richard. "Ainu: Japan’s Indigenous People." Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity. Ed. Michael Weiner. London: Routledge, 1997. Sjoberg, Katarina. The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993. Alison Tokita, The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music. Ashgate, October 2008. S.C.H. Cheung, Ainu culture in transition, Futures, Nov 2003, Volume 35, Issue 9, p. 951–959 Takashi Ogawa, Traditional Music of the Ainu, Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 13 (1961), p. 75 Minako Sakata, Possibilities of Reality, Variety of Versions: The Historical Consciousness of Ainu Folktales, Oral Tradition Volume 26, Number 1 (March 2011) Lisa Hiwasaki, Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaido and the Shaping of Ainu Identity, Pacific Affairs Vol. 73, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 393–412 External links Vanishing Ainu of North Japan