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Aterui, patriarch of the Ainu tribe in northern Japan in the late eighth century, was believed to have had a castle in the present Mizusawa City. He resisted military invasion by the central government. He was eventually compelled to surrender to the commander of the Kyoto troops and was executed near Kyoto in 801.

Aterui, patriarch of the Ainu tribe in northern Japan in the late eighth century, was believed to have had a castle in the present Mizusawa {see planet  (7530)} City. He resisted military invasion by the central government. He was eventually compelled to surrender to the commander of the Kyoto troops and was executed near Kyoto {see planet  (4352)} in 801. (M 38197)