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Медвежий праздник и мир инау на Хоккайдо в описании Мацуда Дэндзюро 1799–1800 гг. (по материалам «Рассказов о северных варварах»)
Manuscript Matsuda Denju:ro: 松田伝十郎 (1769 - 1843) "Tales of the northern barbarians" ("Hokuidan", 「北夷談」) is a valuable source on the history of Russian-Japanese relations, the development by the Japanese of the northern territories inhabited by the Ainu, relations between them and the Japanese, barter. The written source consists of seven notebooks. We used the manuscript that is kept in the Japanese "National Archives of Japan" ("Kokuritsu ko: bunshokan", 「国立公文書館」), created in 1971. It is posted on the official website of the archive. The time of its creation falls on the first years of the Bunsei 文政 era, which lasted from 1818 to 1831. It describes the events from 1799 to 1822 in chronological order, i.e. events that occurred during the 24 years of Matsuda's service in the lands of the Ainu. The manuscript is written in cursive (Japanese: "grass writing" - so: sho, 草書). The second half of the first book of "Stories" deals with the bear festival and the world of inau. The text is accompanied by numerous sketches. Matsuda was probably one of the first who briefly described the festival and various inau, cult objects of the Ainu. For comparison with the statements of a Japanese official, the opinions of authoritative domestic researchers on these topics are involved. The illustrations in the manuscript are of great value. They provide additional information that is missing from the text itself. Matsuda's descriptions refer to November - December 1799. The Hokuidan manuscript has not yet been translated into any of the European languages, with the exception of Russian. The author of this article provides translations of fragments of a written source in the chapters of published collective monographs (Klimov, 2020, pp. 214 - 254; Klimov, 2021, pp. 277 - 334; Klimov, 2022, pp. 151 - 170). The translation was carried out from the published text of the Japanese manuscript in the ten-volume series of written monuments entitled "Collection of historical materials about the life of the common people of Japan" (Nihon shomin seikatsu shiryo: shu: sei, 「日本庶民生活史料集成」) in the fourth volume (Matsuda, 1969, pp. 77 - 175). In addition to this series, "Stories" were published in Old Japanese in the fifth volume of a six-volume series of written monuments called "Library: Northern Gate" ("Hokumon so: sho", 「北門叢書」), published in 1972.