Kintaroo Sardine Sweets

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Kintaro Sardine (kintaroo iwashi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All autumn
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation



Kintaro, the Strong Boy of Japanese Legend, see below with Daruma.

kintaroo iwashi 金太郎イワシ / 金太郎鰯Kintaro sardine




There is a small red sardine, about 15 cm long, locally called "Kintaro キンタロウ" because of its color, that is caught in the trawling nets in Hagi and Shimonoseki and a few other ports along Western Japan. It is not usually sold in the fish stores of Japan, only regionally.

In English, it is called ゴートフィッシュ "Goatfish", in China 羊魚.

Its sweet red meat tasts good as tempura or grilled with salt.
To prepare a sashimi is bothersome, but makes for a very tasty snack.



It is also dried as it is, maruboshi 金太郎丸干, and sold as a local souvenier in Hagi.

The town of Hagi 萩　is lately trying to promote more dishes with this fish to make it a specialtiy of the city.


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Kintaroo ame 金太郎飴 candy named Kintaro

Kintaro ame (candy) has been made since the middle of the Edo period, by layering different colored pieces of candy into a cylindrical face, pull it long to a stick and cut it in small pieces. Other patterns can be included too. Cocoa and caramel are used to color the pieces.
It used to be sold on the special festival days of local shrines and temples and kids enjoyed the differend faces coming out of each cut.



The original store which made this sweet is in the Daitoo ward in Tokyo, 金太郎飴本店.
http://www.kintarou.co.jp/ame.shtml


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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way



. Kintaro and Daruma
Read the legends and stories HERE.


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HAIKU and SENRYU



どの顔も金太郎飴ちんちろりん　
dono kao mo Kintaroo ame chinchirorin
　　　
each face looks
like Kintaro candy -
chin chirorin

Tsukei 津慶
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sasurai_001/archives/51214697.html

chin chirorin is an imitation of the sound made when cutting the sticks into individual candy.

This senryu is a parody about the new political situation in Japan, Septemper 2009.




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萌えだす雑草金太郎の臍おどけ乾く
moedasu zassoo Kintaroo no heso odoke kawaku

Kato Chiyoko 加藤知世子


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Sanyuutei Kintaroo 山遊亭金太郎 Sanyutei Kintaro
A rakugo comic story teller who writes haiku

稲妻や蔵の錠前開いてをり
inazuma ya kura no joomae aite ori

lightning -
the old lock of the storehouse
is open

Look at more of his haiku HERE
http://www.e-warai.com/


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Related words

***** . WASHOKU : Sardine (iwashi) 　

***** Dishes from Yamaguchi Prefecture and Hagi


WASHOKU : FISH and SEAFOOD SAIJIKI

WAGASHI ... Sweets SAIJIKI

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