A short-lived fusion culture of far-eastern Hokkaidō (c. 10th–13th century), named for its type site near Rausu on the Shiretoko Peninsula. It blended the two traditions that met there — the maritime Okhotsk culture and the inland Satsumon — with pottery combining Okhotsk bossed decoration and Satsumon incised lines.
Absorbed into the emerging Ainu culture of Hokkaidō by the 13th century, the last distinct trace of the Okhotsk tradition on the island.
Covers the Okhotsk–Satsumon fusion (Tobinitai) in eastern Hokkaidō and the formation of the Ainu.
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