Kotan Utunnai is an Ainu epic.[1] It is a story of unknown authorship that deals with the hardships of war and desolation.[2] The epic tells about the life of Poiyaunpe, or an unnamed character, a hero who grows up in a foreign land but discovers his Ainu ancestry and returns to his native people.[3]
Plot
editThe hero, who is the narrator and a Yaunkur, learns that the Repunkur killed his parents. Taking his father's war gear, he sets out to avenge their deaths. In the land of the Repunkur, he finds his older brother imprisoned. With his sister's help, the hero frees his brother and kills his captors.[4]
Characters
edit- Nameless narrator
- Sister of the narrator
- Brother of the narrator, Kamui-Otopush, a great Yaunkur warrior
- Etu Rachichi, warrior of the Repunkur
- The Repunkur
References
edit- ^ Kotan Utunnai. Oxford Reference. 17 November 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-515669-0. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ "Donna Rosenberg – Kotan Utunnai". Genius. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ Roberts, Jeremy (2009). Japanese Mythology A to Z. Infobase Publishing. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9781438128023.
- ^ Rosenberg., Donna (2006), Glencoe world mythology : an anthology of the great myths and epics, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, OCLC 74331170, retrieved 3 June 2021
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