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xv Acknowledgments Over the ten years that I have worked on this project I have been generously helped by many people and institutions. In Noboribetsu special thanks are due to Chiri Yukie’s niece, Ms. Yokoyama Mutsumi, of the Chiri Shinsha, and her husband, the artist Mr. Yokoyama Takao, who have unfailingly greeted my visits with a smile and given invaluable assistance. I am also especially grateful to my naturalist friends, Ms. Banno Mie and her husband, Mr. Banno Toshio, who opened their home to me, took me wherever I wished to go, and taught me much about the landscape and the plants, birds, and other animals of southwestern Hokkaido, and to Mr. Seino Yoshinori, former head librarian of the Noboribetsu Library, who kindly devoted hours of his valuable time to aiding my research. I wish also to thank Ms. Uetake Yasuko and Mr. Gōda Katsumi of the Noboribetsu Branch of the Ainu Association, as well as Mr. Togashi Toshikazu, Mr. Wakaki Hideo, Mr. Asano Kiyoshi, and Professor Miyake Shin’ichi. In Sapporo, the late Mr. Fujimoto Hideo generously spent time answering my many questions about Chiri Yukie’s life and arranging for helpful contacts. I am also grateful to the Ainu language specialists Professor Kirikae Hideo and Mr. Kitamichi Kunihiko, to Mr. Aoyagi Bunkichi of the Hokkaido Museum of Literature, to Professor Ono Yūgo of Hokkaido University, to the poet Mr. Ono Kunio, and to Mr. Ishihara Makoto for their help with my research. In Asahikawa, I am grateful to Mr. Baba Akira for generously guiding me in 2000 to sites associated with Chiri Yukie’s life, to Mr. Suzuki Kōichi and Ms. Shikada Kagami, who welcomed me at the Asahikawa Municipal Museum, and to Ms. Arai Kazuko and Mr. Sugimura Mitsu. Acknowledgments xvi Several people have contributed or assisted with photographs to illustrate this volume. In addition to Mr. and Ms. Yokoyama and Mr. and Ms. Banno, thanks are due to Ms. Kida Mizue of the Ainu Museum at Shiraoi, Mr. Hasegawa Mitsuru of the Tomakomai City Museum, Mr. Segawa Takurō of the Asahikawa City Museum, Mr. Ogura Hiroaki of the Biei-Shirogane Nature Club, wildlife researcher and photographer Ms. Sasamori Kotoe, and Mr. William Ash of the Imaging Center at Bates College. I would also like to thank the many people in various places who have taken time to advise me on my research or read sample chapters. These include Ms. Nana Satō-Rossberg of Ritsumeikan University, Ms. Robin Fletcher, Ms. Beth Willatts, Professor Robert Askins of Connecticut College, Ms. Kurosawa Reiko, Mr. Sartor Williams, my former student at Bates College, Ms. Ariane Mandell, and my husband, John Strong. I am grateful to Ms. Georgette Dumais of Bates College for her help with technical and clerical matters. Special thanks are also due to my friend Ms. Takami Keiko and to Professor Andō Toshihiko, who first directed my attention to Chiri Yukie. I also wish to thank Professor Ben Dorman of the journal Asian Ethnology for his encouragement of my research and for giving permission to use here my translation of chant 3, an earlier version of which appeared in my article for the journal. I acknowledge the generous support of research grants from Bates College and the Associated Kyoto Program and am grateful for the library resources available to me as an associate in research at Harvard University ’s Reischauer Institute. Finally, I would like to thank my editor at the University of Hawai‘i Press, Ms. Pamela Kelley, as well Ms. Ann Ludeman and Mr. Mike Ashby. Sarah Strong Auburn, Maine ...

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