emishi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

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"This area was one of the last pieces of tribal land to be taken from the indigenous Emishi, descendants of the Jōmon people, who had lived there from prehistoric times until they were defeated by the Japanese Imperial Army in the eighth century."

From Japanese 蝦夷 (Emishi, literally “shrimp barbarians”).

Yemishi (alternative)

Ainu Yamato

Ebisu Ezo

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