イオマンテ

noun

Iomante; Ainu bear-sending ceremony

A traditional Ainu ritual in which a brown bear cub is raised for about two years and then sacrificed to send its spirit back to the divine world. The term is a cultural proper noun; used mainly in ethnographic or historical contexts.

from Ainu

• イオマンテはアイヌの最もっとも重じゅう要ような儀ぎ式しきの一ひとつです。

  Iomante is one of the most important ceremonies of the Ainu.

• この博はく物ぶつ館かんではイオマンテの様よう子すを再さい現げんした展てん示じが見みられます。

  At this museum, you can see an exhibit recreating the Iomante ceremony.