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Dr. Yoshishige Hayashi (1922-2013) is an agricultural economic history researcher who had taught at Hokkaido University for a long time. His area of research is traditional agricultural culture of the Ainu. He is well known for his detailed field work conducted from the 1950s to the 1960s on Ainu society across Hokkaido. Also known for his research style which is heavily influenced by the interdisciplinary method of study at the Research Institute for Northern Culture, he was engaged in the compilation of Hokkaido history along with Dr.Shin-ichiro Takakura. This transcript, which is a recollection of research activities conducted by Dr. Hayashi in 2006, is arguably a valuable record that recounts in detail a side of Ainu and the northern culture studies developed out of Hokkaido University between the 1950s and 1980s.