Emishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands); Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido
China aster (Callistephus chinensis); Chinese aster; annual aster
sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii)
Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis); Jezo spruce
Lyristes japonicus (species of cicada)
Hokkaido squirrel (subspecies of red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris orientis)
Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai, extinct)
Hokkaido sika (Cervus nippon yesoensis); Yezo sika
Yezo Ural owl (Strix uralensis japonica)
Hokkaido brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus); eleuthero; ciwujia
Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)
Sakhalin spruce (Picea glehnii); Glehn's spruce
hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia)
lemon day-lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, formerly Hemerocallis flava); lemon lily; yellow day-lily
Viola eizanensis (flower in the violet family)
bird cherry (Prunus padus)
Siberian lily (Lilium pensylvanicum)
wedgeleaf primrose (Primula cuneifolia); pixie-eye primrose
Ezo neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea polycostata)
arthritic neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea arthritica)
black-veined white (species of butterfly, Aporia crataegi)
Pacific silverweed (Potentilla egedii var. grandis); Eged's silverweed
Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)
Ezo brown frog (Rana pirica); Hokkaidō frog
day lily (Hemerocallis dumortieri); orange-yellow day lily; Nikko day lily
Ochotona hyperborea yesoensis (subspecies of northern pika)
Epipactis papillosa (species of orchid)
yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum)
Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)
chives (Allium schoenoprasum var. schoenoprasum)
Tamias sibiricus lineatus (subspecies of Siberian chipmunk native to Hokkaido)
Japanese hackberry (Celtis jessoensis); Jesso hackberry
Angelica ursina (species of perennial herb)