He is exiled to Sakhalin as punishment for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia. While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous ...

Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek), which teaches Korean Hangul and Japanese Hiragana and Katakana, the latter of which is used for written Ainu. Our most recent content expansion for these two ...

painter and graphic artist born with the first name of Hisao gained world renown for his woodcarvings in the style of the Ainu indigenous people of Hokkaido and the Russian Far East, to which he ...