Omusha

, also umusa or umsa, was an Ainu greeting ritual that, like the related , became a ceremonial—of trade—full of the political symbolism of subservience, to the Matsumae Domain.

Name The word is understood to derive from the Ainu , referring to mutuality, and , translated and defined by John Batchelor as "to stroke the head in salutation".

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