In a June festival held in this region since 1992, dancers with scarecrow clappers lift and tug in a style developed at a school. A onetime forestry officer from this region used its ritual music in his primitivistic Sinfonia Tapkaara, scored 300 films, and won his mentor Tcherepnin’s award with an orchestral Rhapsody. In (-5[1])an edgier style pioneered in this region by the blind street musician Nitabo, a flared tortoiseshell plectrum is struck on the dogskin drum of a thicker-necked lute with 3 large pegs that is tuned (-5[1])while playing jongara. This region’s (*) Yosakoi Soran Festival chants a call-and-response dokkoisho sea shanty by Takio Itō. Bukimisha sings a cappella renditions of the Godzilla score by a composer from this region, Akira Ifukube. The Yoshida Brothers’ percussive shredding (-5[1])exemplifies a shamisen style named for a peninsula in this region. For 10 points, name this region where upopo songs and yukar epics were sung (10[2])in Ainu. (10[1])■END■ (10[12])