Yamato (people)
The Yamato (大和) were the dominant peoples of ancient Japan,and the ancestors of most modern Japanese. By the Nara period, they had for the most part subdued all non-Yamato peoples of the 3 main islands (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, the Ainu of northern Honshu and Hokkaido were not subdued until much later) and stripped them of any political sovreignity they may have had. Most of the non-Yamato peoples of the 3 main islands were fully integrated by the Kamakura period, though some people believe small populations remained until even the early 20th century in the Japanese Alps and rural Kyushu.
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