Satsumon culture
The Satsumon culture (Japanese: 擦文文化, Hepburn: Satsumon Bunka; lit. 'brushed pattern culture') is a partially agricultural, archeological culture of northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido (700–1200) that has been identified as Emishi, as a Yamato-Emishi mixed culture, as the incipient modern Ainu, or with all three synonymously. Scholars frequently equate the Satsumon culture with the Emishi, a people who emerged in northern Honshu as early as the 5th century, and with the ancestral Ainu.