1/16/2008

WINTER FOOD

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The Japanese Food Saijiki

和食歳時記  

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Winter Food

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Winter
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation


The Haiku Winter begins on November 7, according to the Asian lunar calendar.

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There are many food specialities for WINTER in Japan.
In Alphabetical order of the Japanese.
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If the name of a vegetable is mentioned, it represents the cooked form as it is served with rice.

For many fish, see
World Kigo Database: Fish as Kigo

Mochi, ricecakes for the New Year, are prepared in winter.

Salting fish to keep for winter is common in many areas.

Shiru, soups and broth are a fare for winter.
Check the words with ..jiru for that.

Stew, nabe, is also a favorite in this season. Since Buddhists were not allowed to eat meat, the names for meat stews are mostly taken from flowers !


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Early Winter




kawabitarimochi 川浸り餅(かわびたりもち)
mochi prepared on the day of kawabitari

first day of the 12th lunar month
they are an offering to the god of water and are thrown into the river.
People who had to traverse a dangerous river crossing also ate them to ensure a safe crossing.
川渡り餅。乙子(おとご)餅。かびたれもち. 川浸餠

also called

otogomochi otogo mochi 乙子餅
"mochi for the youngest child"
To pray for the health of the joungest child in the family.
On the first day of the 12th lunar month, ceremonies for the deity of water were held, and sometimes people would expose their backside and dip it in water (shiribitari) to pray for safety against water accidents like drowning.

This ritual is reflected in the kigo

otogo no tsuitachi 乙子の朔日 (おとごのついたち)
otogo no sekku 乙子の節句(おとごのせっく)
seasonal festival of the youngest child


The last lunar month was also called roogetsu 蝋月(ろうげつ) or
otogozuki 乙子月
ROO is an old Chinese word for hunting, and the flower of this month is the fragrant roobai 蝋梅 forsythia.

. okotohajime, o koto hajime お事始め "begin of work"  
more ceremonies on the first day of the 12th lunar month


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Mid-Winter


Araremochi 霰餅 (あられもち)
rice-cake cubes, mochi crunch

kakimochi 欠餅(かきもち)
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Christmas cake クリスマス ケーキーkurisumasu keeki and Christmas in general
Weihnachtskuchen, Kuchen und Gebäck für Weihnachten
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Weihnachtsstollen, Stollen
Weihnachtsplätzchen


Kayu ... Rice Gruel
Rice gruel (kayu) with many kigo for the New Year



Mochikubari 餅配 (もちくばり)
giving mochi to the neighbours

配り餅(くばりもち)

Mochitsuki 餅搗 (もちつき)
Pounding Rice (mochi tsuki) for ricecakes
song while pounding ricecakes mochitsuki uta 餅搗唄(もちつきうた)、chinmochi 賃餅(ちんもち)、maschine to prepare mochi, mochitsuki-ki 餅搗機(もちつきき)、straw mat to place the mochi, mochi mushiro 餅筵(もちむしろ)、 sound of pounding mochi, mochi no oto 餅の音(もちのおと) , pounding mochi in the cold, kantsuki 寒搗 (かんつき)



Toshikoshi Soba ... 年越しそば Buckwheat noodles on the last day of the year


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Late Winter


Kanmochi 寒餅 (かんもち) "mochi in the cold"
kan no mochi 寒の餅(かんのもち)
kanmochi tsuku, preparing kanmochi 寒餅搗く(かんもちつく)



Kantamago 寒卵 (かんたまご)
eggs layed in the cold season
..... kan tamago 寒玉子(かんたまご)
They are known to be especially nutritious and healthy.



Kanten tsukuru 寒天造る (かんてんつくる)
preparing kanten agar

kanten seisu 寒天製す(かんてんせいす), kanten sarasu 寒天晒す(かんてんさらす)
drying kanten, kanten hosu 寒天干す(かんてんほす)
Kanten agar and other seaweeds
Kanten and tokoroten agar jelly as SUMMER food



Kanzarashi 寒晒 (かんざらし, 寒晒し)
grain exposed to the cold

寒曝(かんざらし)、寒晒粉(かんざらしこ)


Koorimochi 氷餅(こおりもち) "ice mochi", frozen mochi
koorimochi tsukuru 氷餅造る (こおりもちつくる)



Konyaku koorasu 蒟蒻氷らす (こんにゃくこおらす)
freezing devil's tongue root jelly

konyaku koorasu 蒟蒻凍らす(こんにゃくこおらす)、
koori konyaku 氷蒟蒻(こおりこんにゃく)
preparing frozen konyaku, koorikonyaku tsukuru
氷蒟蒻造る(こおりこんにゃくつくる)
konnyaku こんにゃく food ... gelatinous food made from devil's-tongue starch
Konnyaku and Matsuo Basho
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Mizumochi 水餅 (みずもち) "water mochi"
rice cakes in jelly form

making mizumochi, mizumochi tsukuru
水餅造る(みずもちつくる)
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Shimidoofu tsukuru 凍豆腐造る (しみどうふつくる)
preparing freezing tofu , 凍り豆腐

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itedoofu 晩冬 凍豆腐(いてどうふ)、koori doofu 氷豆腐(こおりどうふ)、kandoofu 寒豆腐(かんどうふ)、Kooyadoofu, Koya Tofu 高野豆腐(こうやどうふ)、
freezing tofu, toofu koorasu 豆腐氷らす(とうふこおらす)
- Reference : Koyadofu

. Koyasan 高野山 and Kobo Daishi Kukai .



Shin nori 新海苔 (しんのり) new nori seaweed
hatsunori, first nori 初海苔(はつのり)
Seaweed (kaisoo) Japan
Including laver (nori), kelp (wakame), duckweed (mo) and agar agar (tengusa)


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All Winter


Ankoonabe 鮟鱇鍋 (あんこうなべ) angler fish stew
ankoojiru soup 鮟鱇汁(あんこうじる)

ankoo 鮟鱇 (あんこう) anglerfish, goosefish, mankfish
and more ankoo kigo


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Botannabe 牡丹鍋 (ぼたんなべ) Wild boar stew
lit. "peony stew".
shishinabe 猪鍋(ししなべ)、inoshishinabe いのしし鍋(いのししなべ)、yamakujira 山鯨(やまくじら)
Wild Boar, Inoshishi and Haiku
Meat from the Mountains


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Chirinabe ちり鍋 (ちりなべ) stew with small fish pieces
taichiri 鯛ちり(たいちり)、tarachiri 鱈ちり(たらちり)


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Dongarajiru 寒鱈汁(どんがら汁) with cod fish, speciality of Yamagata


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Fugujiru, fugu jiru 河豚汁 (ふぐじる) Blowfish soup
fugutojiru ふぐと汁(ふぐとじる)、fugutoojiru ふぐとう汁(ふぐとうじる)
fugunabe, fugu nabe blowfish stew 河豚鍋(ふぐなべ)
fuguchiri 河豚ちり(ふぐちり)、tetsuchiri tetchiriてつちり
fugu no yado, restaurant that serves fugunabe
河豚の宿(ふぐのやど)
Blowfish, globe fish (fugu)



Fukashimeshi 蒸飯 (ふかしめし) steamed warm rice
mushimeshi 蒸し飯(むしめし)、nukumemeshi 温め飯(ぬくめめし)、 meshi fukashi 飯ふかし(めしふかし)、gohan mushi ご飯蒸(ごはんむし)、 gozen mushi ご膳蒸(ごぜんむし)



Furofuki , radish in broth ... 風呂吹き


fuyuna meshi 冬菜飯(ふゆなめし)
cooked rice with leafy winter vegetables



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Hoshinajiru 干菜汁 (ほしなじる)
soup from dried leafy vegetables

hibajiru 干葉汁(ひばじる)

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Imagawa yaki 今川焼 (いまがわやき, 今川焼き)
kind of waffles filled with sweat red bean paste

Made from wheat, eggs, sugar and water for the dough.
Custard cream or white bean paste is also used for filling. The two sides of the waffle are grilled separately. This sweet has different names in various area of Japan.
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taikoyaki 太鼓焼(たいこやき), tomoeyaki 巴焼(ともえやき)、 gishiyaki 義士焼(ぎしやき)
store to make Imagawa yaki, imagawayakiya 今川焼屋(いまがわやきや)
Imagawayaki began to be sold near the Kanda Imagawabashi bridge during An'ei years (1772 - 1781) in the Edo period. The name of Imagawayaki originates from this time.
The bridge had been built by Imagawa Zen-Saemon 今川善右衛門.
Other names (not listed as kigo) are Oobanyaki 大判焼き (like an Oban piece of gold coin), 二重焼き (double grilled), 回転焼き (turned-around waffle), kintsuba きんつば, amatarooyaki 甘太郎焼, fuufu manjuu 夫婦まんじゅう(フーマン) for a good couple, ajiman あじまん, GI焼き and more.
taiyaki たい焼き in the form of a sea bream is a kind of Imagawa-yaki.
まよい焼き, filled with cheese, egg or even a meat burger between the two waffles.



A shrine for Imagawa Yaki ! 今川焼  神社

Imagawayaki began to be sold near the Kanda Imagawabashi bridge during An'ei years (1772 - 1781) in the Edo period. The name of Imagawayaki originates from this time.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


Imagawa-yaki HAIKU by Kusumoto Kenkichi


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Imogayu 藷粥 (いもがゆ)
rice porridge with sweat potatoes
often the daily fare of poor farmers in the Edo period.


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Jibu (じぶ), Kagani 加賀煮(かがに)dish from the Kaga area
jibuni 治部煮(じぶに)、jibunabe じぶ鍋(じぶなべ)
with chicken and duck pieces
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Jingiskan nabe 成吉思汗鍋 (じんぎすかんなべ)
"Genghis Khan Stew"

Mongolian Mutton stew
ジンギスカン鍋(じんぎすかんなべ)
成吉思汗料理(じんぎすかんりょうり)
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jiru, shiru ... soup, broth .. 汁


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Kaburajiru 蕪汁 (かぶらじる) turnip soup
daikojiru 大根汁(だいこじる)

kaburazushi 蕪鮓 (かぶらずし) sushi with turnips
simmered turnips, kabura mushi 蕪蒸 (かぶらむし)



Kaiyaki 貝焼 (かいやき) simmering seafood in shells
kayaki かやき
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Kama-age udon 釜揚饂飩 (かまあげうどん)
udon noodles in broth

kama-age 釜揚(かまあげ)



Kasujiru 粕汁 (かすじる) sake-lees soup
sake no kasu 酒の粕(さけのかす)



Kenchinjiru 巻繊汁 (けんちんじる)
Vegetable Chowder from Yamanashi

kenchin けんちん


Kinmedai 金目鯛 (きんめだい) Alfonsino fish, Beryx splendens


Komaijiru 氷下魚汁(こまいじる)soup with saffron cod


Konowata 海鼠腸 (このわた)
salted entrails of the sea cucumber

sake with salted entrails, konowatazake 海鼠腸酒(このわたざけ)



koorani 甲羅煮 (こうらに)
simmering in the shells of seafood

koora mushi 甲羅蒸し(こうらむし)
especially with kani crabs.



Kujiranabe 鯨鍋 (くじらなべ) whale meat stew
kujirajiru soup, kujirajiru 鯨汁(くじらじる)



Kukizuke 茎漬 (くきづけ, 茎漬け) vegetable stalk pickles
leaf pickles, nazuke 菜漬(なづけ)、hazuke 葉漬(はづけ)、aozuke 青漬(あおづけ)、
furuzuke 古漬(ふるづけ)、Pickles from Omi area, oomi zuke 近江漬(おうみづけ)
kaomise guki 顔見世茎(かおみせぐき)、
barrel for preparing pickles, kuki no oke 茎の桶(くきのおけ)
stone for the lid of the barrel, kuki no ishi 茎の石(くきのいし)
water for the pickles, kuki no mizu 茎の水(くきのみず)
pressing the stems and stalks, kuki osu 茎圧す(くきおす)



Kumowata 雲腸 (くもわた) soft fish roe "like clouds"
菊腸(きくわた)、kiku shirako 菊白子(きくしらこ)、kowawata 強腸(こわわた)、 minowata 蓑腸(みのわた)



kusuri gui .. 薬喰 .. "eating medicine food"
"seller of deer horn", roku uri 鹿売(ろくうり)
"food for the cold season" kangui 寒喰(かんぐい)


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Misotsuki 味噌搗 (みそつき) preparing miso
miso tsukuru 味噌作る(みそつくる)、味噌焚き(みそたき)、
寒味噌(かんみそ)


Momijinabe 紅葉鍋 (もみじなべ) stew with deer meat
lit. "red leaves stew"
Meat from the Mountains


Mushimanjuu 蒸饅頭 (むしまんじゅう)
steamed red bean-jam bun
sakamanjuu 酒饅頭(さかまんじゅう)、amazake manjuu 甘酒饅頭(あまざけまんじゅう)
steamed buns with meat, nikumanjuu 肉饅頭(にくまんじゅう)
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Mushizushi 蒸鮓 (むしずし) warmed sushi
nukuzushi ぬく鮓(ぬくずし), nukumezushi ぬくめ鮓(ぬくめずし)、
warm sushi in a pot, chawan zushi 茶碗鮓(ちゃわんずし)
NUKUI is a word to mean "warm" in Western Japan.
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Nabeyaki 鍋焼 (なべやき)stew in an earthen pot
with fish, meat and vegetables
nabeyaki udon 鍋焼饂飩(なべやきうどん, 鍋焼きうどん, 鍋焼き饂飩)
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Natto 納豆 (なっとう) fermented soybeans
vendor of natto, natto uri 納豆売(なっとううり)
Nattojiru, fermented beans in soup 納豆汁 (なっとうじる)
Natto, fermented soybeans and Daruma



Negijiru 葱汁 (ねぎじる) leek soup
leek soup, nebukajiru 根深汁(ねぶかじる)
leek in rice soup, negizoosui 葱雑炊(ねぎぞうすい)
Naganegi 葱 (ねぎ) leek, green onions



Negima 葱鮪 (ねぎま) stew with leek and maguro tuna fish
leek and maguro stew, negima nabe 葱鮪鍋(ねぎまなべ)
tuna fish stew, maguronabe、鮪鍋(まぐろなべ)
WASHOKU
More maguro tuna dishes




Nikogori 煮凝 (にこごり, 煮凝り) jellied fish or meat broth
nikogori 煮凍(にこごり),
jelly of crucian carp, kogoribuna 凝鮒(こごりぶな)
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Ninjin, ninjin 人参 (にんじん ) carrot, carrots, Karotten


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Noppeijiru 濃餅汁 (のっぺいじる)
vegetable soup with mochi
noppeijiru のっぺい汁(のっぺいじる)、noppe のっぺ、
nuppei ぬっぺい、noppeni のっぺ煮(のっぺに)
speciality


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Oden hodgepodge stew 。。。 おでん
nikomi oden 煮込みおでん(にこみおでん)、Kanto Oden 関東煮(かんとうだき)
stall serving oden food, odenya おでん屋(おでんや)


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Roosoku yaki 蝋燭焼 (ろうそくやき, 蝋燭焼き) craw's meat
Meat of craws is hashed and mixed with miso paste. It is then rolled to sticks and grilled at the fireplace.
Food of the poor farmers from Shinshu and Northern Japan.



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Sake, Salmon with its winter kigo

ishikarinabe 石狩鍋 (いしかりなべ) stew with salmon
sakenabe 鮭鍋(さけなべ)

karasake 乾鮭 からさけ
hoshizake 干鮭(ほしざけ)

Shiozake 塩鮭 (しおざけ)
新巻(あらまき)、塩引(しおびき)、しおじゃけ

Salmon (sake) Japan

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Sakuranabe 桜鍋 (さくらなべ) stew with horse meat and miso
lit. "cherry blossom stew".
banikusuki 馬肉鋤(ばにくすき)、ketobashi けとばし
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Sanpeijiru 三平汁 (さんぺいじる)
salty soup with sardines and vegetables
sanpeizara 三平皿(さんぺいざら)
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Satsumajiru 薩摩汁 (さつまじる) soup with sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes and Daruma ... satsuma-imo 薩摩芋



Senmai zuke 千枚漬 (せんまいづけ) turnip pickles
A speciality from Kyoto, where the big turnips are finely cut into "1000 slices" and pickled with salt.
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Seriyaki 芹焼 (せりやき) dropwort stew
dropwort stew with chicken meat, serinabe 芹鍋(せりなべ)




Shinazuke 品漬 (しなづけ) Pickles
from Hida Takayama. Made from eggplants, big radish and a mushroom called nezumidake 鼠茸 (hookidake 箒茸 ).
Also called sunazuke 酢菜漬
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Shio ... SALT
Salt (shio) and salted winter food
salted salmon, shiozake 塩鮭 (しおざけ) and MANY MORE !


Shioburi 塩鰤 (しおぶり) salted yellowtail fish
Shiodara 塩鱈 (しおだら) salted codfish
Shiogatsuo 塩鰹 (しおがつお) salted bonito



Shoogamiso 生姜味噌 (しょうがみそ) Miso paste with ginger


Shotsurunabe, shottsuru nabe 塩汁鍋 (しょっつるなべ) "salt fish soup stew"
shotsuru 塩汁(しょっつる),
shotsuru kayaki 塩汁貝焼(しょっつるかやき)
with fermented salted hatahata fish sauce, sardines and other seafood
Speciality of Northern Japan.
Hatahata 鰰 ハタハタfrom Akita



Sobagaki 蕎麦掻 (そばがき) buckwheat dumplings
Buckwheat (soba), Buckwheat flowers Japan



Sugiyaki 杉焼 (すぎやき)"preparing food in a cedar box"
hegiyaki 折ぎ焼き
fish, mussles and vegetables are packed in a cedar box and simmered.



Suguki 酢茎 (すぐき) Vinegar vegetable pickles
seller of these pickles, suguki uri 酢茎売(すぐきうり)



Sukiyaki 鋤焼 (すきやき) "food prepared on a spade"
gyuunabe 牛鍋(ぎゅうなべ)、uosuki 魚すき(うおすき)、okisuki 沖すき(おきすき)、torisuki 鶏すき(とりすき)、udonsuki 饂飩すき(うどんすき)
one of the typical winter dishes of Japan !
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Sunamako 酢海鼠 (すなまこ) sea cucumber in vinegar



Suppon nabe 鼈鍋 (すっぽんなべ) suppon turtle stew
marunage まる鍋(まるなべ, 丸鍋)
suppon zoosui, turtle rice gruel 鼈雑炊(すっぽんぞうすい)
Suppon is a delicacy for the tired workers of Japan.
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Tarajiru, 鱈汁(たらじる)soup with tara
tarako, roe of the cod 鱈子(たらこ)
tarachiri, hodgepodge with tara 鱈ちり(たらちり)
hatsu tara 初鱈 (はつたら) first tara of the season
kigo for early winter




Taiyaki 鯛焼 (たいやき, 鯛焼き)
waffles filled with sweat bean paste

in the form of a sea bream (tai).
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vendor of these waffles 鯛焼屋(たいやきや)
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Takuanzuke 沢庵漬 (たくあんづけ)Takuan radish pickles
takuan tsukeru, preparing Takuan radish 大根漬ける(だいこんつける)、新沢庵(しんたくあん)、
新漬沢庵(しんづけたくあん)、早漬沢庵(はやづけたくあん)
Radish (daikon) Japan. Pickled radish, takuan.



Tanukijiru 狸汁 (たぬきじる) Badgers' soup
Food of the poor farmers in many rural areas of Japan.
Badgers and Daruma !


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Yakiimo, yaki-imo 焼薯 (やきいも)
roasted sweet potatoes
vendor of roasted sweet potatoes 焼芋屋(やきいもや)
ishiyakiimo, roasted on hot stones 石焼芋(いしやきいも)
tsuboyakiimo, roasted in a pot 壺焼芋(つぼやきいも)
Saikyoo yaki, from the Kyoto area 西京焼(さいきょうやき)
hokkori ほっこり、
"university potatoes", daigaku imo 大学芋(だいがくいも)
with a sweat syrup cover



Yamijiru 闇汁 (やみじる) "soup in the dark"
soup eaten in the dark with candlelight, shared with good friends. Sometimes they had to guess the kind and number of ingredients in the dark.
yamiyojiru 闇夜汁(やみよじる)
meeting to eat soup in the dark,
yamijiru-e 闇汁会(やみじるえ)



Yosenabe 寄鍋 (よせなべ) mixed stew
The most popular, often with leftovers from the week.



Yotakasoba 夜鷹蕎麦 (よたかそば)
Buckwheat noodles for the late night hawkers.

yonaki soba 夜泣蕎麦(よなきそば)
yonaki udon 夜啼饂飩(よなきうどん)



Yudoofu, tofu in boiling water ... 湯豆腐
..... yuyakko 湯奴


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Zoosui 雑炊 (ぞうすい) rice porridge
(containing vegetables and bits of meat or fish)
a very popular dish for an evening meal. There are many different kinds, according to the main ingredient.
ojiya, おじや、rice soup, rice gruel. Reisbrei

zoosui
with chicken, torizoosui 鶏雑炊(とりぞうすい)
with duck, kamo zoosui 鴨雑炊(かもぞうすい)
with puffer fish, fugu zoosui 河豚雑炊(ふぐぞうすい)
suppon zoosui 鼈雑炊(すっぽんぞうすい)、
ankoo zoosui 鮟鱇雑炊(あんこうぞうすい)
salmon, sake zoosui 鮭雑炊(さけぞうすい)
oysters, kaki zoosui 牡蠣雑炊(かきぞうすい)
crabs, kani zoosui 蟹雑炊 (かにぞうすい)
cod, tara zoosui 鱈雑炊(たらぞうすい)
mochi zoosui 餅雑炊(もちぞうすい)
sweet potatoes, imo zoosui 薯雑炊(いもぞうすい)
leafy vegetables, nazoosui 菜雑炊(なぞうすい)
leek, negi zoosui 葱雑炊(ねぎぞうすい)
nira leek, nira zoosui 韮雑炊(にらぞうすい)
eggs, tamago zoosui 卵雑炊(たまごぞうすい)
with miso base, miso zoosui 味噌雑炊(みそぞうすい)

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Worldwide use

hot cereal, oatmeal, mush, porridge
kigo for all winter
Haferbrei


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Things found on the way





Daruma Nabe ... だるま鍋 ... Cooking pot and restaurant !



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HAIKU





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Related words


***** hot rice wine, atsukan 熱燗, kanzake 燗酒.....
Ricewine, rice wine (sake, saké, saki, Japan)


***** Sweets from Japan (wagashi) 和菓子歳時記
The Japanese Sweets Saijiki


***** . Cheese KIGO from Europe


***** The Asian Lunar Calendar. Reference


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NEW YEAR FOOD

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The Japanese Food Saijiki

和食歳時記  

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New Year Food, Neujahrsessen

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: New Year
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation

There are many food specialities for the New YEAR in Japan.
In Alphabetical order of the Japanese.
Use your browser to find a word, please !

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Food of the New Year Season, O-Setchi Ryori
(osetchi ryoori おせち料理, 御節料理 )



CLICK for more photos The Japanese New Year lasts for three days, when the housewife is not supposed to do any cooking, except for the New Year Soup. So all is prepared in beautiful boxes (jubako 重箱) and served to the family and to the many seasonal visitors. Sharing the food with visitors was the custom called kuitsumi 食摘み, くいつみ during the Edo period.

There are usually three layers of the boxes, the first contains the entree and hors d'oeuvre, the second has the fish and the lowest one the boiled vegetables. Sometimes there is a fourth box with more side dishes.

Most dishes are choosen because they are "engi ga yoi", auspicious of some kind, with a pun.
Japanese are very fond of engimono of all kinds.

. Engimono 縁起物 little things for good luck .

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Collectively known as osechi ryori, these dishes are served generally on the first three days of January, usually at breakfast, when the whole family is together. Tradition has it that they will bring good health to all throughout the year. This cuisine is beautifully arranged in tiered lacquered boxes called jubako.

The name of each osechi food has a fortuitous meaning, either through a play of words or the resemblance of the food with an auspicious item.
For example:

Kazunoko (herring roe) symbolizes prosperity for one's descendents because this delicacy consists of many eggs.
Kuromame (black boiled beans) symbolizes being hardworking or industrious.
Gomame (small dried sardines) symbolizes a bumper crop or rich harvest.
Kobumaki (rolled seaweed) symbolizes pleasure or delight.
Ebi (prawn) symbolizes a wish for long life.

Another New Year's favorite is ozoni, a soup containing sticky rice dumplings (Omochi). Every area has its own recipe. People from the Kanto district, for example, like the soup seasoned with soy and square rice dumplings, while people from the Kansai district prefer soup made with miso (fermented bean soy paste) and round rice dumplings.
http://www.ajinomoto.com/traditions/winter_02.html



Sechi burumai 節振舞 (せちぶるまい)
treating visitors to New Year Food

sechi ae 節餐(せちあえ), toshi no ae 年の餐(としのあえ)
day for eating sechi food, sechi no hi 節の日(せちのひ)

"rice in a bowl", ooban 椀飯(おうばん)
entertaining visitors, ooban burumai 椀飯振舞(おうばんぶるまい)

New Year's Food, sechi ryoori 節料理(せちりょうり)
visitor for the New Year's Food,
sechi kyaku 節客(せちきゃく)
special guest room for this occasion,
sechi zashiki 節座敷(せちざしき)


163 osechi osetchi plastic food


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Acharazuke 阿茶羅漬 (あちゃらづけ, 阿茶羅漬け)
sliced turnips in vinegar dressing


CLICK for more photos A typical dish of Kyoto and the Kansai area. Radishes and turnips are used most often and some cut kombu seaweed and carrots are added. A special vinegar brew with soy sauce, sugar and sweet ricewine is added (sanbaizu 三杯酢).
It is often eaten at the end of a course.

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Bai no mi 海蠃の身 (ばいのみ) flesh of the bai conch
Babylonia japonica (貝、蛽、海蠃、海螄, バイ)
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The shell has the form of half a circle, with some black spots. It ressembles the tanishi shells of the rice paddies, but is a bit longer. It lives in the sandy beaches of many bays.
The white flesh is boiled in sweetened soy sauce. The shells are used by children as spinning tops.

Since poor farmers in the Edo period could not afford expensive food, they also used the normal tanishi conches as food. These were called
nishizakana 螺肴 (にしざかな) , conch snacks.


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chokudaigashi 勅題菓子 (ちょくだいがし)
sweets served for the New Year Imperial Poetry Contest
shokudaika 勅題菓(ちょくだいか)gyodaigashi御題菓子(ぎょだいがし)
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Chorogi 草石蚕 (ちょろぎ) knotroot , Knollenziest
甘露子, 滴露, 丁呂喜,、長老木


CLICK for more photosStachys sieboldii(Stachys affinis).
The roots are colored with red shiso perilla juice to make an auspicious color. They are often served together with black beans. This plant has been introduced from China during the Edo period. It is alse a medicinal plant and now available during the whole year.


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Daikon iwau 大根祝う (だいこんいわう)
"celebrating with radish"
decorating radish, daikon kazaru
大根飾る(だいこんかざる)


It is often placed above the kagami mochi.
This decoration was used for the ceremony of . . . "strengthening the teeth", hagatame . 歯固.
The radish can also be put into zoni soup later.
Radish is a typical vegetable of winter, good for digestion and has been the subject of Japanese poetry since olden times.

Radish (daikon) Pickled radish, takuan.


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Fukucha ... 福茶 "Good Luck Tea"
..... oobuku, oofuku 大服
..... oofukucha, oobukucha 大福茶 , 皇服茶
..... ofukucha 御福茶


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Ganjitsu no Sechi-E 元日節会
Audience and Reception of Politicians

Introduced after the Meiji Reformation. The Emperor meets with the politicians for a first audience and exchanges a glass of ricewine.

Hare no Gozen 晴の御膳 Official Lunch Reception
Hare no Omono 晴御膳 はれのおもの
..... Gozen no gi 御膳の儀
In the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace. Now it can be held on any of the first three days of the new year.

The menu was composed first in the Heian period and is still served today.

vinegar, ricewine, salt and soy sauce, the four condiments

plum branches, baishi 梅枝(ばいし)
Rice flouer was kneaded into the shape of plum branches. They were fried in oil before serving.

peach branches, tooshi 桃枝(とうし)
The same as the plum branches, but in a different form.

"scorpion snack", kakko かっこ 餲餬, □餬
Snacks kneaded with wheat flour, in the shape of a scorpion (蝎 すくもむし sukumomushi). They were either fried or steamed. Also called kappei かっぺい. pei ぺいwas another word for mochi 餅.

dumplings with cinnamon, keishin けいしん 桂心
Wheat or glutinous rice flour and medical cinnamon where kneaded into a form of a three-cornered priest hat. Fried in oil.

round dumplings, tsuishi ついし 鎚子
made from flower, rolled round like "bullets", or round "like satoimo potatoes", then fried or boiled.

"navel cakes" densei, tensei てんせい 黏臍/ (でんせい)
dumplings with a shape of the human navel. Made from flower, then fried.

crackers, hitsura, hichira, hira ひつら,ひちら 饆饠
Made from rice flour mixed with foxtail millet (awa) and millet (kibi). Round and flat types of bisquits, almost like our rice senbei these days.
Others are made of wheat flour and inside is anko sweet bean paste. hira ひら
Also a kind of mochigome 糯米 is used.

dumplings, danki だんき 団喜, kankidan 歓喜団
Made from wheat flour and flour of green beans (edamame), with some poppy seeds (keshi) and dried lotus. Fried in sesame oil. Today they are still used as offerings in Buddhist rituals.
Also called danki 団喜(だんき).
Modern seijoo kankidan 清浄歓喜団 have the ingredients wrapped in the dough like a pouch.
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Others (altogether there are 14 differenr types
14種の果餅(かへい)kahei

dumplings, konton こんとん 昆飩 餛飩
round dumplings with minced meat and vegetables, served with broth

noodles, sakubei さくべい 索餅
The oldest form of the noodles, sakubei, produced by adding rice powder to flour, was introduced from China in the eighth century. Now we have udon and soomen nodles.

crackers, senbei 煎餅
Wheat flour and rice flour are mixed, rolled round and fried in oil. The beginning of our senbei.

dumplings, hakutaku 餺飥(はくたく)
Wheat flour is kneaded and rolled flat until they are all of the same size. Tooshi Chooja of the Fujiwara clan ate them always at the shrine Kasuga Taisha.
Now they are called Hootoo ほうとう, a kind of udon, a speciality of Yamanashi pref.
Yamanashi : Hootoo noodles


The above types of snacks were also introduced from China in the Heian period. There are eight famous snack from China (hasshuu no karagashi, yakusa no kara kudamono 八種の唐菓子, 八種唐菓子). This custom of serving them shows the strong influence of the Chinese culture on the aristocracy during the Heian period. The lists do differ in including various snacks.

They are mostly made of rice or wheat flour, kneaded into auspicious shapes, filled with minced meat or vegetables and fried for consumption. They were also called "fruit" kudamono 果物.
KU meand KI, tree, "ki no mono" like nuts. These snacks were made from the fruits of trees also.
Another old meaning of KUDAMONO is "fish snacks to be eaten with ricewine".

Snack from the Heian Period

http://evagenji.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kudamono1.htm

http://www.meikatanbou.com/chi_/chi_w/w_s055.htm
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~heian/kenkyu/gourme/okasi.htm


and

Hagatame, O-Hagatame (teeth strenghtening)
tooth hardening, teeth hardening
hagatame 歯固 歯がため はがため

rice cakes for strengthening the teeth
..... hagatame no mochi 歯固の餅 はがためのもち
Diamond Petal Rice Cakes
..... hishi hanabira mochi, 菱葩餅 ひしはなびらもち

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Tang confectionery
Japan sent envoys to the Sui and Tang Dynasty from the Asuka period to the beginning of the Heian period. They brought back eight Tang confectioneries (唐菓子 ,Tō-gashi or kara-kudamono) and 14 grain flour-based confectioneries (果餅) and the recipes. The Tang confectioneries were kneaded wheat flour and rice flour, and fried in oil. These were more advanced than the confectionery technology of Japan in those days. They were served at the Imperial Court and offered to Shintoist and Buddhist deities.
According to one view, a dark brown sugar was also brought back from China by Jianzhen who came to Japan from the Tang in this period. However, since sugar-refining technology was not introduced to Japan at this point, the sugar was very rare and was treasured like a medicine. Generally, the syrup that resulted from boiling the sap of Grape ivy down (甘葛煎 ,amazura-sen) was used as a sweetener at this time.

During this period, many diaries and tales were written among upper class and aristocrats. The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book and The Diary of Izumi Shikibu have some episodes about confectionery. Moreover, the records manifesting a life situation also increased with improvement of a government institution. They are how we know confectionery culture of those days.

Tang confectioneries
Major eights: Baishi, Danki, Hichira, Kakko, Keishin, Tensei, Tōshi and Tsuishi.
Others: Buto, Fuzuku, Heidan, Hōtō (According to one theory, it is an archetype of Hōtō hootoo), Kakunawa, Konton, Magari, Mugikata and Sakuhei (sakubei).
Aozashi: It is made of parched green wheat flour and twisted like a thread.
Kezurihi: Shaved ice flavored with amazura-sen syrup. It is called kakigori today.
..... Some mochi-based confectioneries. For example:
Tsubaki mochii: A mochi flavored with amazura-sen syrup.
Inoko mochii: A mochi shaped as a wild boar piglet.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


. WASHOKU
Neujahrsessen bei Hofe



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Gomame ごまめ , 五万米(ごまめ)
"preparing the fields", tatsukuri 田作(たづくり) )
kotono bara 小殿原(ことのばら)
CLICK for more photos Small dried sardines, broiled in sweetened soy sauce. They are also served on other felicitous occasions. During the Edo period, farmers prepared fertilizer for the fields from small sardines and ash from the hearth.
These fish are eaten with the wish for a bountiful harvest.


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hatsutawara 初俵(はつたわら)"first bundle of rice"
first namako Holothurie (Seewalze, Seegurke)
tawarago 俵子 たわらご , 俵魚(たわらご)
kinko 金海鼠(きんこ), iriko 煎海鼠(いりこ)



Haze 葩煎 (はぜ) "popped" rice
"rice flower", komebana 米花(こめばな)
vendor of haze, haze uri 葩煎売(はぜうり)
bag to sell haze, hasebukuro 葩煎袋(はぜぶくろ)
Prepared from roasted glutinous rice (mochigome). The result looks like a white "flower" of the rice. It was often served to visitors.
It was often placed on a special decoration shelf (hoorai dai 蓬莱台) which symbolized the Buddhist mountain Horai in China, where people would live forever.
This custom has died out, but even nowadays some of this popped rice is sold at the festival of some temples and shrines in Osaka.
komebanatoo 米花糖 sugar like "rice flowers"
in the colors green, yellow, red, pink and white, which looks gaudy.


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Hirakimame 開豆 (ひらきまめ) "open" boiled soybeans
Some beans open a bit when boiled. They are picked out especially and added on an extra dish. This is a word play with "opening the good luck", kai-un 開運.


Hiraki goboo 開牛蒡 (ひらきごぼう) "open" burdock
"divining sticks" burdock, sangi goboo 算木牛蒡(さんぎごぼう),
"crushed" burdock tataki goboo 叩牛蒡(たたきごぼう)
The long burdock roots are inscised various times and boiled long as they are. They resemble the divining sticks of temples and shrines. Sometimes the burdock is crushed. Sesame is added for flavor.
Wish to become as strong as the burdock root in the coming year.
In Kansai, it is used instead of kuromame black beans for the three side dishes (mitsuzakana).


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Imogashira 芋頭 (いもがしら) tubercle of taro potatoe
imo no kami 芋の頭(いものかみ), kashira imo 頭芋(かしらいも)
celebrating with taro, imo no kami iwau
芋の頭祝う(いものかみいわう)
imogashira iwau 芋頭祝う(いもがしらいわう)

This is a pun with the word "kashira", being the head of a group, and is therefore considered auspicious food.
It is either put into the zoni soup or prepared boiled as a side dish.

CLICK For original link ... www.kashiwashobo.co.jp
Scened of Edo
Vendor of things for the new year, including the taro potatoes


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Kagami mochi ... 鏡餅  ... Decoration Rice cakes for the New Year
Their decorations are full of auspiciuos symbols.

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Kazu no ko 数の子 (かずのこ) , 鰊鯑(かずのこ)
kado no ko かどのこ

shio kazunoko 塩数の子(しおかずのこ)
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Herring roe. Herring is also called "kado" in the language of the Ainu. The name derived from kado-no-ko "children of kado fish". it comes dried or salted and is a MUST for the New Year. Because there are millions of eggs in a herring ovary, it symbolizes good luck with many children and generations of the family.


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Kirizanshoo 切山椒 (きりざんしょう) desert dish
lit. "cut mountain pepper"

A kind of sweet made from rice flour, sugar and mountain pepper. It can be cut and served over a bowl of rice for a quick snack. It is usually served steamed, which enhances the fragrance of the pepper. It is supposed to brick luck with money affairs.
A prepacked cake of this kind is also sold at the New Year Fair "Tori no ichi" at Asakusa, Tokyo.


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Kobumaki, konbumaki, kombumaki 昆布巻き (こぶまき)
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A roll of tang containing dried fish simmered in sweetened soy sauce.
A play of words with yorokobu, to have pleasure, to enjoy something.
Some saijiki do not list this as a kigo.


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Kohada no awazuke 小鰭の粟漬 (こはだのあわづけ)
Spotted shad pickled in foxtail millet

Typical New Year Food of the Kanto area. Fish of medium and small size are placed in a foxtail millet pickles mixture. This preparation can stand for many days and is therefore suitable for the cold food of this season. To get rid of all the small bones the fish is cut into three slices and salt added to the pickles mixture. When take out of the mixture, it is simmered in sweetened vinegar.


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Kuitsumi 喰積 (くいつみ)
juuzume 重詰(じゅうづめ), juuzume ryoori 重詰料理(じゅうづめりょうり)
kumijuu 組重(くみじゅう), kuitsugi 食継ぎ(くいつぎ)
o-tegake お手掛(おてかけ)
o-torizome お取初め(おとりぞめ)

Rice and food to be shared with visitors. Includes chestnuts, dried persimmons, soure oranges, konbu seaweed, popped rice and dried abalone. All this food represented auspicious symbols for the new year.


. . . Haiku with KUITSUMI


喰つみも子隅の春と成にけり
kuitsumi mo ko sumi no haru to nari ni keri

stockpiling rice
for Little New Year's...
little nook of spring


Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue


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Kuromame 黒豆 (くろまめ)black beans

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mame also means diligent hardworking and healthy, so the beans are eaten with the wish to stay healthy and not experience any disaster in the coming year.

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Musubi konbu 結昆布 (むすびこんぶ)
finely cut kombu seaweed

musubi kobu 結びこぶ(むすびこぶ)
mutsumi konbu 睦み昆布(むつみこんぶ)
It is placed in the "Lucky Tea" and the zoni soup.
A play of words with yorokobu, to have pleasure.


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Noshi 熨斗 (のし) abalone decoration
long noshi, naganoshi 長熨斗(ながのし)
abalone noshi, noshi awabi 熨斗鮑(のしあわび)
打熨斗(うちのし)、
thin abalone, usu awabi 薄鮑(うすあわび)

A thin strip of dried abalone wrapped in folded red and white paper or served on a piece of green bamboo. It used to be eaten, but since the Edo period became a piece of decoration. Because the meat of the abalone tends to strech long, it is a symbol of the long and good human relations. Now even paper imitations of a noshi can be used.

Noshibukuro, envelop for presenting money


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Oobuku, oofuku ... 大服
New Year's Tea, Good Luck Tea (fukucha)


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Oshi ayu 押鮎 (おしあゆ) pressed sweetfish
The fish is salted and kept in a pot with a heavy stone on the lid for pressing.
This food was used for the ceremony of . . . "strengthening the teeth", hagatame . 歯固.
Because of its fast growth during just one year it is auspicious to eat it during the New Year days. It is a speciality of the Tosa area of Shikoku, but now eaten all over Japan.
It is also called "fish of one year", nengyo 年魚.
It is now the prefectural fish of Gunma.



押鮎や日に日に十句たまりゆく
oshi ayu ya hi ni hi ni tooku tamariyuku

pressed sweetfish -
every day, every day
10 more new haiku

Ozawa Katsumi 小澤克己

source :  鮎 ..62句
Tr. Gabi Greve


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Ryoo no mono 料の物 (りょうのもの) two side dishes
..... 両の物(りょうのもの)
Beside the main tray with New Year food, there are two small dishes, one on each side, which contain some beans or other vegetables. This is an old custom of decoration from Kyoto.
Sometimes they are also placed on both sides of the zoni soup container.
Open soybeans, open burdock and fern are used most often for these dishes.


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Sainichi 斎日, さいにち Fasting day, sixteenth day

During the season of the New Year and O-Bon, on the sixteenth day,the memorial day of Enma, King of Hell, everyone took a day off and fasted. Servants and monks and sometimes even the prostitutes were sent home for a general holiday (yabu iri, yabu-iri 薮入), so the stores closed early and most people stayed at home with the family. Holidays like this for the servants were not common during the Edo period, where they had to work seven days a week the whole year.

. The First Lunar Month 一月 ichigatsu - in Edo .


けふこそは地獄の衆もお正月
kyoo koso wa jigoku no shuu mo o-shoogatsu

today even the
hordes of hell celebrate
the new year


Issa, 1820 (Tr. David Lanoue)

Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo

Sakuo san translates "jigoku no shuu" not as the demons, but the humans that had fallen to hell after death and are usually maybe eaten by the demons. These poor sould had a day off, since the demons and all else were on a fast.

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薮入の大輿の通りけり
yabuiri no oomikoshi no toori keri

Servants' Holiday--
the great festival shrine
passes by


Kobayashi Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)

Read more
Emma (Enma ten, Enma Oo) 閻魔天、閻魔王)
The King of Hell and Haiku



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やぶ入やきのふ過たる山神楽
yabuiri ya kinoo sugitaru yama-kagura

home for a day --
the Hachiman shamans
danced yesterday


This hokku was written in Edo on 1/22 in 1804, so Issa is imagining, probably based on a memory or on something he has heard, a scene near Kyoto on 1/16. The 16th is the day when servants are allowed to return to their parents' houses to celebrate New Year's and when wives who live some distance from their natal homes return home for a day. Before Japan imported its lunar calendar from China, the day of the first full moon of the year, 1/15, may have been more important than 1/1, when the lunar year begins on the Chinese lunar calendar. By Issa's time, however, marriage had become patriarchal under warrior-class rule, and 1/1 was called Big New Year's and 1/15 was called Small New Year's. The latter was also called Women's New Year's, onago no shougatsu, and in rural areas women generally became a year older on 1/15, while men became a year older on 1/1. Both 1/15 and 7/15 were times when ceremonies were held to welcome back the spirits of the dead, and the return of wives and servants was originally for the purpose of greeting the spirits of their ancestors together with their families. On the other day of returning home, 7/16, people who went home were able to join in the ceremonies to greet their ancestors, since the large O-Bon Festival of Returning Souls was held from 7/14 to 7/16, but probably because there were two New Year's Days in the first month, Big and Small, those who returned to their hometowns on 1/16 were too late to join in the ceremonies for ancestors on 1/15. This is the situation Issa's hokku assumes.

Women from the villages around Kyoto were in great demand in the city, where they were hired as servants and maids and given lessons in "high" culture by aristocratic and merchant families, and the majority of returnees from Kyoto to the countryside around it were women, so I'll refer to the servant or wife who returns in Issa's hokku as "she." The woman's parents live a few miles south of Kyoto near Mount Otoko, literally Male Mountain. On that mountain was a very large and famous Shinto shrine and Buddhist temple complex (in Issa's time Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples were usually located next to each other and shared the power of the place), with the shrine being dedicated to Hachiman, the god-bodhisattva of shamanic flags, bows and arrows, and rice paddy fertility.

The shrine is called the Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine, and the woman's family probably made a pilgrimage up the mountain the day before and watched sacred kagura dancing by the shrine's female shamans, whose dance was believed to welcome back the returning souls of ancestors on 1/15. The woman's parents may also have prayed at a large bonfire on the night of 1/15 in which all the implements and decorations used at Big and Small New Year's were burned and thereby sent back to the other world. By the time the woman returns to her home on the 16th, the ceremonies and festivities have finished, and she is unable to greet her own ancestors' souls directly, when they descended to the shrine. All she can do is pray from a distance, after their souls have returned to the other world. She must be very glad to see her family, but she also feels a day late and a bit empty. If she is a returning wife, then on 1/15 she probably had to go with her husband to pray to her husband's ancestors, so the sense of returning late must make her return bittersweet.

Tr. and comment by Chris Drake
Translating Haiku Forum


. Kagura Dance - Sato Kagura 里神楽 of Shinto Shrines .


. Iwashimizu Hachimangu 石清水八幡宮.


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Shida ... 歯朶 しだ  ... Fern 
Fern and the Seven Herbs of Spring

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suwaridai, suwari dai 据り鯛 (すわりだい) "seated sea bream"座り鯛/据わり鯛
Four grilled sea breams are put on a plate with the heads and tails up.
This kind of decoration is also used for other celebrations.



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Toso iwau 屠蘇祝う(とそいわう)
celebrating with spiced ricewine

spiced ricewine tosozake 屠蘇酒(とそざけ)
bag to prepare this, tosobukuro 屠蘇袋(とそぶくろ)
spices for toso, toso san 屠蘇散(とそさん)、
life-prolonging spices for toso, toso enmeisan
屠蘇延命散(とそえんめいさん)
nenshu, ricewine of the year 年酒
... toshizake としざけ
nenshi zake 年始酒(ねんしざけ)
nenshu iwau 年酒祝う(ねんしゅいわう)


A sip of this mulled wine will bring long life!
It contains the extract of various spices and herbs.
The toso spices mixture originated as a prescription of the famous Chinese physician Hua Tuo in the period of the Three Kingdoms.
It contains Japanese pepper, rhubarb, Chinese bellflower, Radix asiasari, Apiaceae or Umbelliferae, cinnamon powder, dried ginger, Atractylodes Japonica and a few others.


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Zoni... 雑煮 (ぞうに) New Year Soup
Mixed vegetable soup for the new year is eaten on January first in the morning, usually after the first shrine visit and prepared with the first well water (wakamizu, see below) .
In Western Japan, it is the custom to add a lot of yellowtail (buri) to the broth of vegetables. The soup is seasoned with white miso and the mochi are round.
In Kanto the soup is prepared with soy sauce and the mochi are square.

People greet each other on the first of January:
What did you eat in your zooni?
After that, no hot food was eaten until January 4, to give the housewive and the kitchen and hearth deities a short holiday.

Every family has its own recipe of how to prepare it, handed down from mother to daughter as the "taste of mother".

zooni iwau ... 雑煮祝う To celebrate with zoni New Year Soup
and more ZONI KIGO.


First Water, "young water" (wakamizu) Japan.
Including more kigo of this water-drawing ceremony.


mochinashi zooni 餅なし雑煮
new year zoni soup without mochi

from the Iya valley, Tokushima. With ishidoofu 石豆腐 "stone tofu".


gomadare zooni 雑煮 胡麻ダレ zonimochi with walnut sauce
from Iwate, where the mochi are dipped in a thick sauce of ground walnuts and miso paste.



insutanto zooni インスタント雑煮 ready-made zoni soup
from various regions of Japan, you only have to poor some hot water on the mix in the plastic pot.
The perfect treat for a lonely-living person in our modern world.
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otoso Seasoned rice wine, kind of herbal medicine



Other dishes not KIGO

baigai バイガイ, ばい貝, 梅貝 small water snails
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A play of words with BAI, to come back to you manifold. 福が倍にくる
a speciality of the Noto peninsula and Sea of Japan coast. They are prepared as sashimi, sushi or tsukudani broiled in soy sauce. They taste rather sweet.
Children used the empty shells to play with.
Die ostasiatische Meeresschnecke (baigai) ist in gesüßter Sojasauce gekocht eine besondere Delikatesse. Die armen Bauern der Edo-Zeit verwendeten stattdessen Teichschnecken aus den Reisfeldern. Die Schneckenhäuser dienten den Kindern als Kreisel für die Neujahrsspiele.


Chikuzen-ni 筑前煮 "boiled vegetables from Chikuzen area.
Gameni mixed vegetables and chicken. Fukuoka


datemaki 伊達巻 (だてまき) sweet rolled omelette
It reminds us of the daimyo Date Masamune, who always wore a gaudy outfit. So we can wear it at least once a year. and MAKI is maku, rolling in new culture and education for the future, also becoming more intelligent in aquiring such education.


hinode ebi, hinodeebi,hinode-ebi 日の出海老
"prawns for the first sunrise" boiled



kachiguri 搗ち栗/勝ち栗 dried chestnuts
A pun on the word katsu 勝, to win. These dishes were also served when a samurai returned home victoriously.



kurikinton, kuri kinton くりきんとん 栗きんとん, 栗金団 sweet potatoes and chestnuts mashed
Brings wealth for the coming year. The yellow color reminds us of golden pieces of money (koban).
KURI can change bad luck into good one. (hikkuri-kaesu)
KIN 金 implies money.


kuwai 慈姑 (くわい) arrowhead
Sagittaria trifolia. Pfeilkraut
CLICK for more photos Since its buds sprout quite visible, it is an auspicious food for "me ga deru", to have good luch (eyes coming out). It can be cut with six corners to resemble a little bell.
arrowhead, kigo for early spring
Suita kuwai 吹田くわい arrowhead from Suita town, OsakaKuwai Zooni くわい雑煮



namasu なます vinegared vegetable dish
to keep for many days
usually koohaku namasu 紅白なます in the auspicious colors red and white.
made from radish and carrots
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red and white auspicious renkon dish

renkon 蓮根 レンコン lotus roots
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Lotoswurzeln
It is an auspicious food,since you can see through the holes of the root "into the future", saki ga mitooseru 先が見通せる, mitooshi ga kiku 見通しがきく, which is lucky. Therefore lotus dishes are always prepared for auspicious situations, festivals and the New Year food.
Lotus roots as food


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tazukuri たずくり young dried sardines (gomame) with seasoning
Wish for a good harvest.
Seasoned with sake, mirin and white sesame seeds.



uchiawabi, uchi awabi 打ち鮑 flattened abalone
auspicious pun about striking an enemy down (utsu 打つ).
These dishes were also served when a samurai returned home victoriously.



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yanagibashi やなぎばし chopsticks made from willowtree wood
The middle part is thickest. To use them for eating brings good fortune to the kids and grandkids and more descendants.
. Chopsticks as KIGO for the New Year  



yatsugashira ヤツガシラ / 八つ頭 "eight eight heads"
satoimo サトイ モ Taro as kigo
Just as this parent potato has many child potatoes (sprouts), we eat it with the wish for many children and further generations.
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China

Chinese New Year's rice cake (Chinese: Nian gao 年糕)
is a special kind of cake made of stick rice. Eating nian gao symbolizes elevating oneself higher in each coming year.

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passing Chinatown...
the scent of nian gao wafts
my way home


Chen-ou Liu, Canada


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皺面にとそぬり付るわらひ哉
shiwazura ni toso nuritsukeru warai kana

he smears New Year's sake
all over his wrinkled face ...
what a laugh


Kobayashi Issa, 1821


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***** The New Year and its Kigo (shin nen)
essen zum Neuen Jahr


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Explanation


There are some decoratinons for the New Year prepared with mochi or other food items.
Most of them are eaten after January 15.


hatsu .. means first done in the new year
waka ... means young, also first in the new year

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New Year's Food, sechi ryoori 節料理(せちりょうり)o-sechi



Let us look at some of the food-related items, that are not typiclally osechi.


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hatsu kashigi 初炊ぎ (はつかしぎ) first cooking (of rice)
hatsu kamado 初竈 (はつかまど) first use of the hearth (fire)


fukuwakashi 福沸 (ふくわかし) first boiling of fresh water

fukunabe 福鍋(ふくなべ)first preparing of a hodgepodge


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kakedai 掛鯛 (かけだい) sea bream decoration
..... kakedai 懸鯛(かけだい)"hanging sea bream"
niramidai 睨鯛(にらみだい / 睨み鯛)"glaring at the sea bream"
tsutsumi-o no tai 包尾の鯛(つつみおのたい)sea bream with the tail wrapped


This is a special decoration for the New Year and wedding parties.
It can be hung at the eaves of a home or temple or shrine.
The fish is not eaten afterwards, so people "glare" at it. Also maybe because two fish are hung up to glare and stare at each other.
They are an amulet for strong family ties.


. iwaidai 祝鯛 sea bream for celebrations .

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kezurikake 削掛 (けずりかけ) srcaped wood pole
(for hanging the decorations)

kezuribana 削花(けずりばな)scraped flowers
kibana 木花(きばな)wooden flowers
hoitakeboo ほいたけ棒(ほいたけぼう)
awabo hiebo 粟穂稗穂(あわぼひえぼ)pole for awa and millet

kezurikake sasu 削掛挿す(けずりかけさす)sticking the pole for decoration

hondare ほんだれ, hodare 穂垂れ(ほだれ)hanging ears (of rice)

The wood is shaved into flowrers or the ears of grains are hung on it to pray for a good harvest.


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mochibana 餅花 (もちばな) "mochi flowers"
hahamochi 花餅(はなもち) flower-mochi
hana kazari 花飾(はなかざり)、
mochi no hana 餅の花(もちのはな)flowers made from mochi
mochiho 餅穂(もちほ)ears (of rice) made from mochi
mochigi 餅木(もちき)tree branch with decorations

inaho 稲穂(いなほ)ears of rice
inaho no mochi 稲穂の餅(いなほのもち)mochi like ears of rice

mochi demari 餅手毬(もちでまり)temari balls as mochi
Temari, decoration balls


These red and white round mochi are put on branches of willows or bamboo and hung on the shelf for the deities (kamidana) in the home or at the entrance, especially of stores and shops. The twigs bend down by the weight of the mochi and thus remind the people of ears of rice. They are a prayer for a good harvest in the coming year.

Now many are made from plastic and hung in the shopping malls and department stores, beginning at the end of the old year and taken down on January 14.


餅花やかざしに挿せる嫁が君
餅花やかざしに插せる嫁が君
mochi-bana ya kazashi ni saseru yome ga kimi /mochibana

these mochi flowers -
put up for decorations
for the first mouse


Written around 延宝年間, Basho around age 35.
He observed the first mounse looking hungry at these deliciuos decorations.

MORE
hokku about mochi
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


. First mouse 嫁が君 (よめがきみ ) yomegakimi .
old name of the mouse / New Year


source : itoyo/basho


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. Mayudama 繭玉 (まゆだま) "cocoon balls"
mayudango 繭団子(まゆだんご)dumplings like cocoons
mayumochi 繭餅(まゆもち)cocoon ball mochi
They are a bit smaller than the mochibana and are a prayer for the silk production.



toshi no mochi 年の餅 (としのもち) mochi for the New Year




Wakamizu 若水 First Water, "young water"



wakamochi 若餅 (わかもち) "young mochi"
Prepared during the first three days of the New Year. Sometimes also for the small New Year (koshoogatsu) on January 15.



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tsuttoko つっとこ New Year Food
 
Toge Shuraku, Matsudai Area 峠集落(松代エリア)Niigata



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かまけるな柳の枝に餅がなる
kamakeru na yanagi no eda ni mochi ga naru

stop pestering!
rice cakes are growing
on willow branches


Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue

This haiku has the prescript, mochibana.
Mochibana are rice cakes with willow branches stuck in them, presented as offerings to the gods on home altars

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繭玉の踊るがごとく咲くごとく
mayudama no odoru ga gotoku saku gotoku

the cocoon balls
are like dancing
like blossoming


Hayashi Shoka (Shooka ) 林昌華 (1923 -


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