peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan), foreigner, barbarian
蝦夷【えみし】
Emishi, Ezo, non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan, Yezo, Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
