341 Avery Morrow is a PhD student in Religious Studies at Brown University. Imaishi Migiwa 今石みぎわ, ed. Umi o watatta inau: Ainu to Wajin no bunka kōshōshi no kenkyū 海を渡ったイナウ—アイヌと和人の文化交渉史の研究. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kikō Tōkyō Bunkazai Kenkyūjo Mukei Bunka Isanbu, 2019. 168 pages. I n 2015, the researcher Imaishi Migiwa discovered a group of Ainu religious implements called inaw イナウ in Shinto shrines in two coastal villages in Ishikawa Prefecture, some thousand kilometers from Hokkaido. Upon close examination, these nine inaw were recognized to have been brought to Honshu by a similar process that brought twenty-four inaw to Engakuji 円覚寺, a Shin- gon Buddhist temple on the west coast of Aomori Prefecture. Tese inaw were collected from multiple locations across the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido over the period of 1868 to 1888 by Wajin 和人 (non-Ainu Japanese) merchants doing regular business with the Ainu. While this period is known for the seizure of Ainu lands by Japan and Russia and the imposition of Western-style colonial- ism, the inaw viewed as a group of artifacts paint a very diferent picture. Imaishi assembled a team of experts specializing in inaw, maritime trade, and Ainu-Wajin interaction, who together published a research report in 2019, Umi o watatta inau (Imaishi 2019). Its contributors describe every aspect of the pro- cess that brought these inaw to the island of Honshu, including Ainu ritual prac- tices, the religious customs of Wajin merchants on the northern seas, and power Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 47/2: 341–351 © 2020 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture dx.doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.47.2.2020.341-351 review article Te Inaw of Ishikawa Ainu Religious Implements in Japanese Shrines and Temples Avery Morrow