kuro-pok-guru

Updated: July 25, 2026

This theory was founded on the supposed discovery of relics of pit-dwellers in the islands of Yezo and Itorop, and their hasty identification as Kuro-pok-guru the Ainu term for underground dwellers whose modern representatives are seen among the Kurilsky or their neighbours in Kamchatka and Saghalien.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era