Cultural Changes on the Kamikawa Ainu Society Caused by the Foundation of Asahikawa as Colonial City

本研究考察明治时期阿伊努人社会的文化变迁。特别是明治20年代前后，日本殖民政府对北海道中部的阿伊努人进行了激进的开发和城市化，在此期间，阿伊努人的文化活动发生了转变，并试图解释近代以来日本殖民政府对阿伊努人的社会产生了怎样的影响，社会文化发生了怎样的变化。考试结果表明，他们的文化活动或多或少地改变了传统的风格和方式。特别是伊奥曼特，这是阿伊努人宗教中最重要和最基本的仪式，已经发生了巨大的变化。本文的研究结果表明，明治20年代前后的这些转变是殖民发展和政策的反映。

This research examines the cultural change of Ainu society in the Meiji period. In particular, it focuses on the transition of cultural activities among an Ainu group in the central Hokkaido around the Meiji 20s when the Japanese colonial government pushed forward radical development and urbanization to this area and attempts to explain what kind of influences their society received from colonization by Japanese government in the modern period, and how their socio-cultural changed. The result of examinations shows that their cultural activities had changed from the traditional style and way in greater or less degree. Especially Iomante which is the most important and fundamental ritual in the Ainu religion had drastically changed. Results of this research show the hypothesis that these transitions before and after the Meiji 20s were a reflection of the colonial development and policy.