Daidokoro kitchen and hearth

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Kitchen (daidokoro) and hearth (kamado)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The Japanese kitchen has to deal with a lot of humidity in the summer months. So the stainless steel surfaces are very suitable.

Also, there is usually no cellar to store food in a cool place and the kitchen space is very small. The yukashita shuunoo 床下収納 【ゆかしたしゅうのう】 box in the kitchen floor is special.
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Each family member has its own bowl of rice and chopsticks. Especiallt the meoto pairs for a couple are typically Japanese.


Even in a family kitchen there is space for many knives to cut the food.

The oroshigane for grating is another speciality of theJapanese kitchen tools.

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In a home kitchen, a lot of food of different nationalities is prepared for one meal, curry rice on one plate, Chinese-style salad on another and miso soup to got with it ...
This kind of internatinonal cooking has become common since the Meiji period.

The pride of a Japanese kitchen is the assortment of knives.


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In former times, the kamado hearth was important and a God of the Kitchen was revered.








Water was also important, although the running water was often outside in the street or a well. The God of Water was revered there.



Running water and a box for the house to keep fresh fish.
Shinjo Village, Okayama pref.


See also my story about the
Samurai Home Kitchen in Katsuyama

Suijin, God of Water


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observance kigo for the New Year

hatsu kamado 初竈 (はつかまど)
first use of the hearth (fire)

hatsu kashigi 初炊ぎ (はつかしぎ)
first cooking (of rice)
. . . . . kashigizome 炊ぎ初（かしぎぞめ）
takizome 炊初（たきぞめ）, takizome 焚初（たきぞめ）
wakameshi 若飯（わかめし）first cooked rice

niwa kamado 庭竈 (にわかまど) cooking stove in the garden


. Cooked Rice, Food and Kigo


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animal kigo for early spring

. iso kamado 磯竃 (いそかまど) stove on the beach 　

for the fishermen and women to keep warm and cook a fast meal or cup of tea.


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observance kigo for early autumn

. Bon Stove (bongama 盆竈) .

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animal kigo for all winter

. kamado neko 竈猫（かまどねこ）cat in the hearth 　

Cats would settle in the warm ashes for the night.


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observance kigo for mid-winter

. kamabarai 竈祓 (かまばらい) hearth purification .
kama matsuri 竈祭（かままつり） hearth festival
kamashime 竈注連（かましめ） sacred rope (shimenawa) for the hearth
Koojin barai 荒神祓（こうじんばらい）purification for the deity Kojin sama


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HAIKU


Some haiku by Gabi Greve

memory loss
at the kitchen table -
who are you ?

2006 : Alzheimer





春雷や ガラスの響く台所
shunrai ya garasu no hibiku daidokoro

spring thunder -
the rattling window panes
in my old kitchen

Gabi Greve, Spring Thunder Haiku



snow snow snow -
the cats just sleep
in the kitchen

　Haiku Kun and his mother, O-Tsu


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寒食や竃をめぐるあぶら虫
kanshoku ya kamado o meguru aburamushi

cool food -
cockroaches search
around the hearth

Tan Taigi 炭太祇

. kanshoku - eating cold food 　
observance kigo for mid-spring



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Related words


. Kamagami 釜神 The Hearth Deity .
Dokujin, dokoojin 土公神 - Kenroo chijin 堅牢地神 Kenro Earth Deity
お荒神様 Aragamisama


***** Hocho, wabocho . 和包丁. Knife, knives (hoochoo, waboochoo) Japanisches Messer

***** Meoto Tablewear for Couples

***** Mizu, drinking water

***** WASHOKU : General Information


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