Editing Ainu people (section)

===Traditions===
[[File:作業中の千島アイヌ.png|300px|thumb|[[Chishima]] Ainu working]]
The Ainu people have various types of marriage. A child is traditionally promised in [[arranged marriage|marriage by arrangement]] between their parents and the parents of their betrothed, or by a go-between. When the betrothed reach a [[marriageable age]], they are told who their spouse is to be. There are also traditional marriages based on the mutual consent of both sexes.{{sfnp|Batchelor|1901|p=[{{GBurl|f3EIAwAAQBAJ|p=223}} 223]}} In some areas, when a daughter reaches a marriageable age, her parents allow her to live in a small room called a {{lang|ain-Latn|tunpu}}, annexed to the southern wall of the house.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiADAAAAMBAJ&q=ainu+marriage+house&pg=PA85 |title=Ainu Family Life and Religion |first=J. K. |last=Goodrich |journal=[[Popular Science]] |volume=XXXVI |date=April 1889 |page=85}}</ref> The parents choose her husband from the men who visit her.

The age of marriage is 17 to 18 years of age for men and 15 to 16 years of age for women,<ref name="Service2006" /> who are traditionally tattooed. At these ages, both sexes are regarded as adults.{{sfnp|Poisson|2002|p=35}}

[[File:Suitsetav ainu mees - An Ainu man smoking (9614485282).jpg|thumb|An Ainu man smoking]]

When a man proposes to a woman in traditional fashion, he visits her house, and she hands him a full bowl of rice. He then eats half of the rice and returns the rest to her. If the woman eats the remaining rice, she accepts his proposal. If she does not and instead puts it beside her, she rejects his proposal.<ref name="Service2006" /> When a man and woman become engaged or learn that their engagement has been arranged, they exchange gifts. The man sends her a small engraved knife, a workbox, a spool, and other gifts. She sends him embroidered clothes, coverings for the back of the hand, leggings, and other handmade clothes.{{sfnp|Batchelor|1901|p=[{{GBurl|f3EIAwAAQBAJ|p=226}} 226]}}

The worn-out fabric of old clothing is used for baby clothes because soft cloth is good for their skin. Additionally, worn-out material was thought to protect babies from the gods of illness and demons, due to these entities' abhorrence of dirty things. Before a baby is breast-fed, they are given a [[decoction]] of the [[endodermis]] of an [[alder]] and the roots of [[butterburs]] to discharge impurities.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sILrJPM4DFAC&q=ainu+decoction+alder&pg=RA1-PA110 |title=Early European Writings on Ainu Culture: Religion and Folklore |last=Refsing |first=Kirsten |year=2002 |publisher=[[Psychology Press]] |isbn=978-0-70071-486-5 |page=110}}</ref> Children are raised almost naked until about the ages of four to five. Even when they wear clothes, they do not wear belts and leave the front of their clothes open. Subsequently, they wear bark clothes without patterns, such as {{lang|ain-Latn|attush}}, until they come of age.

Ainu babies traditionally are not given permanent names when they are born. Rather, they are called by various temporary names until the age of two or three. 
Newborn babies are named {{lang|ain-Latn|ayay}} ("a baby's crying"), {{lang|ain-Latn|shipo}}, {{lang|ain-Latn|poyshi}} ("small excrement"), and {{lang|ain-Latn|shion}} ("old excrement").{{sfnp|Poisson|2002|p=31}} Their tentative names have a portion meaning "excrement" or "old things" to ward off the demon of ill-health. Some children are named based on their behavior or habits; others are named after notable events or after their parents' wishes for their future. When children are named, they are never given the same names as others.{{sfnp|Landor|2012|p=[{{GBurl|6JQMmDXI9pQC|294}} 294]}}

Men traditionally wear [[loincloth]]s and have their hair dressed properly for the first time at age 15 to 16. Women are also considered adults at the age of 15 to 16. They traditionally wear underclothes called {{lang|ain-Latn|mour}}{{sfnp|Fitzhugh|Dubreuil|1999|p=[{{GBurl|4oRxAAAAMAAJ|p=320}} 320]|loc="Ainu women's underclothes were called mour, literally "deer," a sort of one-piece dress with an open front, ..."}} and have their hair dressed properly, with wound waistcloths called {{lang|ain-Latn|raunkut}} and {{lang|ain-Latn|ponkut}} around their bodies.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kindaichi |first=Kyōsuke |author-link=Kyōsuke Kindaichi |year=1941 |title=Ainu Life and Legends |publisher=Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways |url={{GBurl|6cLYAAAAMAAJ|q="pon kut"}} |page=30 |quote=One is a nettle-hemp braid named {{lang|ain-Latn|pon kut}} (small sash) or {{lang|ain-Latn|ra-nn kut}} (under sash).}}</ref>
When women reached the age of 12 or 13, the lips, hands, and arms were traditionally tattooed. When they reached the age of 15 or 16, their tattoos would be completed, indicating their qualification for marriage.{{sfnp|Poisson|2002|p=35}}