Mashiho Chiri (Japanese: 知里 真志保) (February 24, 1909 – June 9, 1961) was an Ainu linguist and anthropologist.

Later, Kindaichi Kyosuke recognized his intelligence and invited Chiri to stay at his house in Tokyo and attend the First Higher School, Japan [ja].

Chiri taught at a girls' school and researched at a museum in Karafuto for three years[1] before taking a temporary position at Hokkaido University in 1943.

He won the 1954 Asahi Prize for writing a classified Ainu language dictionary.

His translation style was meant to reflect the performative nature of how the stories were told, and he did this by writing them in colloquial Japanese and improvising.