niphonians

Updated: May 20, 2025

This country, now inhabited by the Niphonians, or Japanese, as we have come to call them, was previously the home of the Ainu, a white, hairy under-sized race, possibly, even probably, emigrants from Europe, and now gradually dying out in Yezo and the Kurile Islands.

Edward Tyson - A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients