by Basil Hall Chamberlain · 1888
Chamberlain writes down the oral tales of the Ainu of Yezo as told by chiefs and villagers, from how the owl got his feather cap to why dogs cannot speak. Fox-gods, the civilizer Okikurumi, the Panaumbe and Penaumbe cycle, a man who weds the Bear-Goddess and a hunter in Hades fill its moral tales and scraps of folklore.