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 | | Koro-pok-guru, also written koropokkuru, korobokkuru, or koropokkur, are a race of small people in Ainu folklore. |
 | | The name is traditionally analysed as a tripartite compound of kor or koro ("butterbur plant"), pok ("under, below"), and kur or kuru ("man, husband, person") and interpreted to mean "people below the leaves of the butterbur plant" in the Ainu language. |
 | | The Ainu believe that the koro-pok-guru were the people who lived in the Ainu's land before the Ainu themselves lived there. |
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