Amappo
An was a traditional brown bear, bear and Yezo sika deer, deer hunters' trap of the Ainu people of the northern Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin. ''Amappo''-based traps were also used by ethnic Japanese matagi hunters. Summary Mechanically, the ''amappo'' was a simple crossbow of elastic Taxus, yew wood set in a notch at the top of a short post or tree stump. A stump prepared for this purpose was called a . A release mechanism actuated by a tripwire was strung across a game trail. When an animal traversing the path disturbed the tripwire, a loaded arrow was released. These arrows were wrapped in birchbark to protect them from rain, marked with an , or family symbol, to indicate ownership of the kill, and coated with a paste of , a lethal poison derived from aconitum ground in a mortar and pestle specially set aside for the purpose. This style of trap originated in eastern Siberia. On the Japanese archipelago, ''amappo'' are believed to have been in use since at least the N ...
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