Talk:Koshibito

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There appear to be zero hits on Google scholar for this word and the three on Google books seem irrelevant. There is no article for 高志人 on the Japanese wikipedia. Does this term even exist? Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 22:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Google books gives no hits for "Koshibito" in Frédéric, Louis. Japan encyclopedia. Page number? Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the page number is given in the citation. Try searching for Koshi-bito, with a hyphen. Also, I'm not sure if you read Japanese, but if you do try this Google search which returns 65 results, all non-WP: [1], plus this one for one of the alternate ways of writing it: [2] (17 hits). Take for example this page on the linguistic affilitations of the historical peoples of Japan. --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 21:24, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cortazzi, Hugh (1983). Isles of gold: antique maps of Japan. Weatherhill. p. 54. ISBN 0834801841. states "Before the Nara period (710-82), all of northeastern Japan including Tohoku was called Koshi, and its inhabitants were called Koshibito by the Japanese. (Koshibito literally means 'Peope from over the other side')". This seems inconsistent with the current article. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 18:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]