Okaeri Yasai

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Recycled vegetables (Okaeri Yasai)

***** Location: Japan
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okaeri yasai おかえりやさい
"Welcome home, vegetables!"


A recycling project from the city of Nagoya, started in 2008.

Food leftovers from supermarkets in the city are collected and made to compost at Bio Plaza Nagoya.
The compost is used on fields of group members to produce vegetables.
Chives, bean sprouts, onions and many more are grown in this way.

Local schools also get the vegetables for their school lunch and as education material for the children.


Okaeri nasai　お帰りなさい

this is the normal greeting for a person coming back home.

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. Reference : おかえりやさい


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okaeri yasai -
see you again
on the dinner table

Gabi Greve


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***** WASHOKU :
YASAI . Vegetable SAIJIKI

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Worlds of Flavor

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CIA Worlds of Flavor

2010 Worlds of Flavor ®
Conference November 4–6, 2010

The theme of this year

Japan: Flavors of Culture

テーマは「日本の味と食文化」





This annual three-day forum is widely acknowledged as one of our country's most influential professional forums on world cuisines and trends. Each November, the Worlds of Flavor® Conference showcases the gold standards of world cuisines that are reshaping American palates and the U.S. foodservice industry.

The 13th Annual Worlds of Flavor Conference will represent one of the largest and most significant American professional conferences ever held dedicated to the flavors and food culture of Japan. Interest in Japanese food and culinary traditions has seen phenomenal growth among American consumers in recent years.

Sushi has moved from the exotic to the mainstream, Japanese noodle soups are regularly included in volume foodservice operations, Japanese fine dining restaurants claim top tier ratings, and Japanese flavors and culinary aesthetics influence the menus and ambience of even non-Japanese restaurants. At the same time, Japan is often less familiar to Americans than Italy, France or other European countries. American food professionals sense that we are only at the beginning of our discovery and understanding of the "gold standards" of Japan and Japanese food culture.

"Japan: Flavors of Culture,"
will both celebrate the increasing interest in Japanese flavors in American foodservice as well as provide access to an unprecedented gathering of culinary talent from Japan—talent who represent mastery in their respective areas of endeavor. The conference faculty will include more than 60 leading chefs and other experts on the food and culinary traditions of Japan. Participating chefs from Japan will represent a variety of Japanese regional culinary traditions and types of cooking from casual to high cuisine and from traditional to modern. American chefs and operators will discuss how they are adopting and translating Japanese flavors for a range of new-generation U.S. foodservice concepts.

Highlighted themes will include traditional Japanese techniques for farming and fishing, the Japanese heritage of preserved foods from soy sauce to miso and nori, the world of Japanese noodles from soba and udon to ramen, sushi and sashimi traditions, Japanese cooking techniques from tempura to the Japanese live fire kitchen, an insider's view of the legendary kaiseki kitchens of Japan, the philosophy and art of Japanese cooking and food presentation, Japanese kitchen tools, Japanese desserts, Japanese green tea, sake, beverage pairings, and much more.

source : www.ciaprochef.com


. Rererence .




Worlds of Flavor conference adds Japan to its menu
Japan Times, Nov. 18, 2010


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料理界のハーバードと言われる米国の名門料理大学
CIA（The　Culinary　Institute　of America）
では毎年11月上旬の3日間にわたり、世界最大級の料理会議“
World of Flavor Conference &Festival（WOF）”を行っている。全米から集まる料理人や料理研究家をはじめ、世界の食に携わるプロフェッショナルやそれを支えるさまざまな分野の人を対象とした、料理の世界に大きな影響を与えると評価される国際会議とされている。

source : 英文イベント概要）


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Music and Food

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Music and Food

Some people think that animals and plants grow better if you let them listen to soothing music for some time every day.

Mozart seems to be a favorite among the classical music showers.

Music is also played to food that needs a period of ripening, like fruit, soy sauce, miso paste, mushrooms and even the dough for a good bread.

A good sake might spend some time with classical music, as they to in Fukushima, at Ohara Shuzo.


. Chicken, Hinaidori and other local brands 　


. Cows, beef and music ... Wagyu 和牛 　
Matsuzaka Beef


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Mozart Bananas モーツアルトバナナ
from Toyoka Chuo Seika, Hyogo prefecture
兵庫県の豊岡中央青果

The unripe bananas from the Philippines are ripened in a store room with Mozart music playing for them.

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Harada Star Drop Tomatoes
原田　星のしずく トマト
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Mozart's growing influence on food

The music of Mozart happens to be rich in such frequencies (1/f noise, pink noise) above 8,000 Hz - which is why sound and music therapy both tend to use it.
source : The Japan Times, Nov. 25, 2010


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Shiratama white dumplings

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Shiratama white dumplings

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All summer
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Shiratama 白玉 (しらたま) Shiratama Dango
"white treasure, white pearls"

They make you feel cool in summer and are often served in a glass bowl to enhance the cool feeling. They are a snack taken between meals, sometimes as a desert. Sweet brown-sugar syrup is poored over the chilled dumplings.
They can be combined with fruit, red azuki beans, ice cream or jelly. They usually imply a snack during the daytime.
Most popular is a serving in sweet azuki soup (shiruko).

They are made from special flour, Shiratamako 白玉粉.

glutinous rice flour. It is quite lumpy when dissolved in water and must be kneaded thoroughly for making dumplings.


. WASHOKU
Dumplings of all kinds


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shiratama uri 白玉売 vendor of Shiratama in Edo


from the magazine Morisada Mankoo 守貞漫稿

In Edo, these vendors walk along, selling Shiratama and cold water (hiyamizu 「冷水（ひやみず）). The vendor scoops cold water from a well in the morning and starts his business. The dumplings were made of kanzarashiko flour 寒晒粉 (another name for Shiratamako). They were put in a bowl, covered with cold water and some brown sugar then sprinkled on top of them.
One bowl was sold for 4 mon.
Walking along the streets, the vendor would call

ひやつこい ひやつこい hiyakkoi hiyakkoi
Here comes the cold delight !

Some vendors sold only cold water with sugar
satoo mizu uri 砂糖水売り


. mizu-uri 水売 (みずうり) vendor of water in Edo .
kigo for all summer

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夕涼花火賑 : 歌川国周画
http://www.kabuki-za.com/syoku/2/no114.html

On this woodblock from 1870 by Utagawa Kunichika you can see three men enjoying the firework display at the bridge Ryogokubashi. They are three actors, the name of each one is mentioned.
From the left they are Ueo Kikugoro 五代目尾上菊五郎、
Nakamura Shikan 四代目中村芝翫 and Sawamura 二代目澤村訥升.

Kikugoro is dressed in the robes of a vendor of Shiratama.


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source : blog.3331.jp/staff/201405

志ら玉 Shiratama in Edo
歌川国芳 Utagawa Kuniyoshi 《名酒揃 志ら玉》Meishu zoroe - Shiratama





當盛六花撰　Toyosei Rokkasen 紫陽花 Ajisai - 三代歌川豊国 Utagawa Toyokuni 3rd

The man on the right is holding a bowl of Shiratama with red dumplings.


source : kabuki-za.com/syoku

. Food vendors in Edo .


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白玉にとけのこりたる砂糖かな
shiratama ni toke-nokoritaru satoo kana

on the Shiratama
it has not yet dissolved -
this sugar




. 高浜虚子 Takahama Kyoshi


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白玉や愛す人にも嘘ついて
shiratama ya aisu hito nimo uso tsuite

sweet rice dumplings---
even to my love
a little white lie




Suzuki Masajo 鈴木真砂女
1969　

CLICK on the thumbnail
to see the image and text of Nakamura Sakuo.


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***** . hiyashi shiruko 冷し汁粉（ひやししるこ）sweets with red beans

***** WAGASHI - Sweets Saijiki

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NOVEMBER NEWS

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NOVEMBER ... juuichigatsu 十一月

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.............. November 27, 2009

Fugu without poison
Farmed in Ainan Town 愛南, Ehime prefecture
Thrill-seeking gourmets have long lusted after the poisonous "torafugu" blowfish, a winter delicacy in Japan that can be lethal ...
Optima Foods Corp. has succeeded in farming 50000 non-poisonous fish of the "takifugu rubripes".
Reference, Japan Times November 27

©　More TAKIFUGU in the WIKIPEDIA !

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November 27 (Fri) & 28 (Sat), 2009


International Film Festival on Organic Farming (English)

国際有機農業映画祭 (日本語）


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.............. November 10, 2009

BioFach Japan and Natural Expo 2009:

* 242 exhibitors at BioFach Japan and Natural Expo 2009
* Satisfied visitors despite smaller area


242 exhibitors from altogether 18 countries presented their latest product developments and trends to 13,690 visitors in the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition centre from 7–9 October 2009. Although the 1,461 m2 occupied by BioFach Japan and Natural Expo this year was less than the year before, this did not adversely affect the satisfaction of the exhibitors. Due to the strong trend to natural personal care and eco-textiles, special areas had already been created for these ranges in 2008. In 2009, 24 exhibitors presented their latest creations from the textile segment in Cotton Street and the Natural Personal Care Area attracted 28 exhibitors of natural cosmetic products. Around 30 winegrowers enhanced the event with their wines from certified organic grapes.

The next BioFach Japan and Natural Expo take place in the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition centre from 21–23 September 2010 .

“Organic is not a label, it is an attitude. This quote from one of our exhibitors clearly confirms that organic is a question of attitude and organic customers remain loyal – even at times of crisis. The Japanese organic event convinced exhibitors and visitors for what is meanwhile the ninth time.

source: www.biofach-japan.com


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.............. November 7, 2008

Zuwaigani ずわい蟹 (ずわいがに ) snow crab,queen crab
Chionoecetes opilio
This is the first day of the official crabbing season. About 120 male snow crabs and 4,000 female snow crabs were hauled in at a Toyooka port in Hyogo. 兵庫豊岡
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Schneekrabbe


Yamaguchi
kawarasoba, kawara soba 瓦そば "noodles cooked on roof tiles"


Okayama Tenobe Soomen 岡山手延素麺 has started to sell these handmade noodles in a set for easy home cooking. Also chasoba 茶蕎麦 "tea noodles".
During the war in South-West Japan 1877 the castle of Kumamoto was sourrounded by the troups of Satsuma. The Satsuma soldiers used roof tiles to prepare their vegetables and meat. This is the origin of this food preparation.


岡山県浅口郡里庄町新庄平井1887-1 : 手延べ麺

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.............. November 8, 2008

Kyoto farmers started pickling thinly sliced turnips (senmaizuke　千枚漬). They will pickle about 500,000 turnips until April 2009.

© PHOTO :　Japan Times


.............. November 8, 2011

Kyoto marks winter with turnip pickling
The pickling of turnips, known as "senmaizuke", began in Kyoto on Tuesday, the first day of winter according to the traditional Japanese calendar.
One of the city's culinary specialties is made from shaved "Shogoin" turnips. The turnips get sweeter as nighttime temperatures start to drop around this time of year.
Workers at a pickle factory peeled the turnips, which are 20 centimeters in diameter and weigh about 2 kilograms each, and shaved off slices as thin as 2.6 millimeters using special planes.
They arranged the shaved turnips in wooden barrels in fan shapes, and then sprinkled salt on them. The turnips are taken out of the barrels after 3 days and soaked in a soup stock with kelp.
A typhoon in September delayed the seeding of the turnips, but a good harvest came in this year.
The factory's foreman says the work is hard because the entire process must be done by hand. He says he hopes that the pickles will become more delicious as temperatures drop and sweeten the turnips.
The peak of pickling will come next month.
source :　NHK world news


うすら氷(ひ)のせんまいずけを切にけり
ursura hi no senmaizuke o kiri ni keri

now cutting
the slightly frozen turnips
for pickles

Taiki Koosaku 瀧井孝作（たきい こうさく)
1894 - 1984

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Unicul Festival 2008 ゆにかる祭
The festival is being held to raise awareness toward building a multilingual and multicultural community. Ethnic food, including rice cakes, Portuguese churassco, Mexican tacos, and Indian curry will be sold, as well as folk crafts and handmade accessories. There will also be live performances of Philippine songs, dances, Peruvian folk dances, and workshops on African dances and balloon art.
The venue is Okazaki Park, which is a 10-minute walk from Higashiyama Station on the Tozai subway line.
Japan Wire




Wankosoba Taikai (wanko soba) わんこそば (わんこ蕎麦 / （椀こそば)
The winner today ate 383 cups of buckwheat noodles.
わんこそば全日本大会


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.............. November 13, 2008

Aso's fish slip gives game away
By REIJI YOSHIDA

Prime minister adds to his image of wealthy, aloof politician out of touch with common people

But he probably revealed his true colors Monday while talking about meals at cheap "izakaya" pubs in Tokyo, drawing strong reactions from thousands of pro- and anti-Aso users of 2channel, the country's largest Internet forum.

"Meals (at the pub) were something like 'hokke no nitsuke,' " Aso told executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party during a meeting Monday, according to major daily Mainichi Shimbun and Kyodo News.

"Hokke" is a kind of mackerel that is rather cheap but quite substantial, and therefore a favorite of those trying to fill their stomachs with low-budget pub fare.

"Nitsuke" means fish simmered in soy and sugar, a home-style dish for common folks.

But at a pub, at least in the Kanto region, hokke is usually grilled and never nitsuke style.
Thus the combination of hokke and nitsuke that Aso mentioned sounded very strange to many people, and gave the impression that, while pretending to understand the cuisine of common people, Aso has no actual experience of eating such food at inexpensive pubs.
snip
"Do you judge (the value) of a prime minister by hokke no nitsuke or bars at hotels? It's stupid," said another anonymous message on 2channel posted Tuesday.
　© Japan Times


Australian beef exports to Japan dropped about 8% from a year ago in October.
Meat and Livestock Australia. MLA



bluefin tuna catch quota
Japan plans to call for halving bluefin tuna catch quota in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean at an annual meeting next week of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, government officials said Thursday.
The plan comes after the ICCAT scientific committee in October ruled that 28,500 tons of bluefin tuna catch quota in the waters for 2008 is excessive and recommended that the quota for 2009 be halved to less than 15,000 tons to prevent a fast decline in tuna stocks.
The 50 per cent cut in the quota is expected to affect Japanese consumers. Japan's bluefin tuna catch quota in the ICCAT-regulated waters for 2008 total 2,430 tons and could be reduced to 1,300 tons in 2009 under the Japanese plan.
source : Kyodo / news.tradingcharts.com


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.............. November 17, 2008

ボジョレー・ヌーヴォー : Beaujolais Noveau hits Japan

Here is a headline about it ...

Hello Kitty Beaujolais Nouveau in Plastic Bottles Arrives in Japan ...
11 Nov 2008

Online Reference


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.............. November 18, 2008

Chinatown in Ikebukuro　東京池袋の中華街 ?
Tokyo Chinatown, 東京中華街
A local group is trying since April 2007 to organize the 200 Chinese enterprises around the West exit of Ikebukuro station to form an official Chinatown. Many Chinese students live in this area since 1980.
But many Japanese store owners oppose this plan.
source : www

WASHOKU : Chinatowns in Japan


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.............. November 20, 2008

Worldwide Water shortage

Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.
Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing the severity of floods, droughts and storms — all of which reduce the availability of drinking water.
Wong said the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that as many as 2 billion people won't have sufficient access to clean water by 2050. That figure is expected to rise to 3.2 billion by 2080 — nearly tripling the number who now do without it.
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.............. November 21, 2008

Sake brewing starts in Asahikawa, Hokkaido


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.............. November 24, 2008

Manju are named after famous politicians


Koizumi manjuu 小泉まんじゅう
Koizumi Junichiro





Ozawa manjuu おざわまんじゅう, 小沢饅頭
小沢一郎 Ozawa Ichiro

similar to dadacha manjuu.
いっちゃんまんじゅう Ittchan Manju



Shinchan manjuu 晋ちゃんまんじゅう

安倍晋太郎(あべしんたろう) Abe Shintaroo



Aso manjuu with chocolate
生チョコ大福・麻生まんじゅう

麻生太郎首相 Aso Taro




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September 2009, after the elections


take a bite
from the political pie -
Hatoyama bisquits


Hatoyama sabure / 鳩山民衆サブレー / 鳩山サブレー

Hatoyama bisquits / Yukio Hatoyama Yukio
maybe the next prime minister ...
鳩山由紀夫, born 1947
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Hatoyama Apples
政権交代紅白まんじゅう seiken kootai koohaku manjuu
and more HATOYAMA snacks !



Fujikawa Yuri 藤川ゆり
ゆりたんの美味しすぎる りんごケーキ
Yuritan Apple Cake . Yuri Fujikawa


Politician from Hachinohe, Northern Japan



Kenchan Manju 健ちゃんまんじゅう
千葉県の森田健作知事 Morita Kensaku from Chiba





Aso Taro 2009 Manju
秘密の太郎ちゃん from Akihabara 秋葉原名物
Manju to change Japan 日本をかえるまんじゅう




. . . CLICK here for Photos about polititians and Manju sweets !



. Prime Minister Fukuda 福田首相 . Daruma Senbei



Here is a special treat

Obama Manju, OBAMAまんじゅう / オバマ饅頭









Obama Burger made from fish meat



From the town Obama in Japan 福井県小浜市.



Audience

Shared by Taisaku Nogi
Joys of Japan, February 2012



- - - - - 2017 - Cookies about
Donald Trump and his "friends"


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.............. November 25, 2008

Echizen Kurage 越前クラゲ monstrous jellyfish
Their number has greatly fallen this year from 6800 sightings in November last year to only 128 this year. The reason is unclear, dirt in Chinese waters, global warming or not enough food left for them.


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.............. November 27, 2008

Fukumitsuya Sake Boutique
Two new drinks of a shochu liqueur with carrots and apples.
"kutsurogi no onboratto" おんぼらっと
Already available are plum, yuzu, mango
source : 　www.fukumitsuya.co.jp
source : 　くつろぎのおんぼらぁと
　〒920-8638　石川県金沢市石引二丁目8番3号


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.............. November 30, 2008

Japan begins to import whale meat from Iceland.
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December　。。。 juunigatsu 十二月 　


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Renkon (lotus root)

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Lotus root (renkon)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various LOTUS, see below
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renkon 蓮根 lotus root
kigo for all winter

It is not really the root, but but an underground stem with many holes.
There are alwasy one small hole in the middle, two smaller ones on the top side and all around the middle one are seven other ones, altogether nine holes around the middle. Air is funneled through these holes to the plant.


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, which is lucky. Therefore lotus dishes are always prepared for auspicious situations, festivals and the New Year food.





renkon no hasami-age れんこんのはさみ揚げ
Renkon no Hasami Age
Lotoswurzel mit Hackfleischfüllung


Lotus, Lotos (hasu) ... all KIGO
and all about the symbolism of the lotus blossoms.
The flowers of lotus play an important role in Buddhist philosophy.


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Renkon is well loved and prepared as a speciality in some prefectures.


. Kaga renkon 加賀レンコン/ 加賀れんこん
Lotos roots from Kaga, Ishikawa 　



The story of the ailing daimyo of Kumamoto, Hosokawa Tadatoshi,
細川 忠利 and how he got well with
. karashi renkon 辛子れんこん lotus roots with mustard 　
and
karashi renkon chippusu 辛子れんこんチップス
Karashi Renkon Chips
from Kumamoto




. renkon katsudon れんこんカツ丼
cotelette with lotus root on rice 　
from Gifu




. renkon no ni-ae れんこんの煮和え
simmered lotus root salad 　
from Aichi



. renkon no su no mono と\れんこんの酢の物
lotus root pickled in vinegar 　
from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi



. Urajima renkon 連島レンコン
lotus roots from Urajima town 　
renkon shooshuu レンコン焼酎 schnaps
from Okayama


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hasumeshi 蓮飯 lotus with rice

hasu no meshi 蓮の飯 (はすのめし)
hasumeshi 荷飯（はすめし）
hasuha no meshi 荷葉の飯（はすはのめし）rice on a lotus leaf
observance kigo for early autumn

Served at the O-Bon ancestor festival.
. Bon Festival, O-Bon, Obon お盆 .




Hiroshige, Eating Lotus at Shitaya Hirokoji, Ueno
江戸高名会亭尽　下谷広小路

In the background is the pond Shinobazu no Ike in Ueno, famous for its lotus and the island with a shrine of Benten. Parties for "lotus blossom viewing " (hasu no hanami 蓮の花見) were quite popular.

A party of writers of comic verse (kyooku 狂句) in 17 syllables is having a party after the poetry meeting.

One of the dishes is Lotus with Rice 蓮飯 hasumeshi,
prepared with lotus seeds and leaves and salted rice.



There is also hasu no ha meshi, kayoohan (荷葉飯 はすのはめし）,
rice with lotus leaves, with the rice wrapped in a lotus leaf.
The rice is cooked with this wrapper.

Other recipes prefer to boil the lotus seeds and leaves and use the broth to cook the rice.

. Reference : 荷葉飯



. Benten, Benzaiten 弁天　弁財天 　


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hasu no mi　蓮の実 fruit of the Indian lotus
Nelumbo nucifera

It is used as medicine against sleeplessness and also helps with diarrhoe.
It can be served in soup or as a sweed desert.


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塩魚の塩こぼれけり蓮の飯
shiozakana no shio koborekeri hasu no meshi

the salt of this
salted fish spills over . . .
rice with lotus

Kaya Shirao 加舎白雄 (1738-1791)


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Lodgings (hatago)

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Lodgings, inn (hatago)

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Hatago (旅籠, 旅篭)
were Edo period lodgings for travelers at shukuba (post stations) along the national highways, including the Edo Five Routes and the subroutes. In addition to a place to rest, hatago also offered meals and other foods to the travelers.
They were also called hatagoya (旅籠屋).

Hatago means "traveling basket."
The word itself originally derived from baskets that contained food for horses and were carried by travelers. From there, it became a tool with which travelers were carry their own food and goods. Shops that began preparing and selling food for travelers gained the suffix ya (屋), meaning "shop," but this was eventually shortened to just hatago.

Because many post stations along the Tōkaidō, Nakasendō and other historical routes have been either preserved or rebuilt, there are many traditional hatago still in existence today. While some have only been preserved as public buildings and museums, others have continued to operate for the past few hundred years.
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. shukuba 宿場　post station, postal station .

. kujiyado, kuji yado 公事宿 lawsuit inn, "lawyers' inn” .


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Tokaido, Akasaka by Hiroshige

meshimori hatago 飯盛旅籠（めしもりはたご)
lodgings serving food (and women)

Travellers could ask for food being brought by women who would serve them "anything".

A good traveller would walk about 40 kilometers (10 ri 里), a woman made about 30 kilometers (8 ri).



Tokaido, Goyu 御油(ごゆ) by Toyokuni

- Goyu 御油 and Akasaka 赤 on the Tokaido Road - Basho is visiting
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


Goyu was about 298 km from Edo and 195 km close to Kyoto. Now it is in Toyokawa.

Of course reservations could not be made in the Edo period. Travellers arrived at any time and stopped when they got tired of walking.
A licensed hatago would provide two meals, breakfast and evening meal.

Other lodgings (yadoya, yado 宿屋) more popular with the poor travelelrs would only provide the firewood for self-cooking (kichinyado, kichin yado 木賃宿).
The cost was about 3000 yen (300 mon) for a hatago. A yado would charge about 500 yen (50 mon).

Travellers would often have to share a simple room with others.

When entering a hatago, travellers could wash their feet in a wooden basin (tarai たらい) and sometimes a woman servant would carry their luggage up to a room.

Some hatago would provide local delicacies to entertain the travellers with food and local sake. Some where quite famous for this, for example in Odawara they served kamaboko fish paste.
One meal consisted of a pot of soup, two sidedishes of vegetables and rice 一汁二菜. The price varied with the quality of the food.


.Toyokawa Inari Shrine 豊川稲荷 i .


. tarai 盥 -　たらい　tub, basin, washing bowl, wash tub .

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Tokaido, Hiratsuka, by Hiroshige

Hiratsuka is still quite close to Edo, only about 60 kilometers on the road. It was a stop at the crossing of river Banyuugawa 馬入川, now Sagamigawa.
For a slow traveller, Hiratsuka was the second stop-over on the trip.

Here you can see the servants carrying trays with food. The smaller girl carries the pot with cooked rice (meshibitsu 飯櫃).
On the tray there are a bowl of soup, a bowl for rice, a plate with a fish (fried or boiled fish was common), a covered bowl with cooked vegetables (sometimes even lily roots or yuba soy skin, shiitake mushrooms) and a small plate with pickled vegetables.
This is quite a delicious evening meal. Fish was not served in the morning.



. Reference : 旅籠 in 江戸 .


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Modern Hatago and Food 旅籠料理

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ryokan 旅館 Japanese inn

Many ryokan take great pride in a long history of "motenashi no kokoro" おもてなしのこころ, entertaining the guests with utmost care.

honjin 本陣 feudal lord's lodging in the Edo period
... waki honjin 脇本陣
. sankin kootai 参勤交代 Sankin Kotai Daimyo attendance in Edo .


hoteru ホテル hotel

minshuku みんしゅく【民宿】simple guesthouse, bed and breakfast,
a private home providing meals and lodging (for tourists)

shukubo, shukuboo 宿坊 lodging in a temple



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かすむ日や大旅籠屋のうらの松
kasumu hi ya oohatagoya no ura no matsu

misty day--
behind the big inn
a pine

Kobayashi Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)



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時の日や昔旅籠の掛時計　
toki no hi ya mukashi hatago no kakedokei

time memorial day -
this wall clock
in the old inn

Sankei 山渓




. toki no kinenbi 時の記念日 (ときのきねんび)
time memorial day, time day


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Japan Foodways

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Japan Foodways, Past and Present


304 pages

The first English-language compilation of research
on Japanese cooking and food culture

Spanning nearly six hundred years of Japanese food culture, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japanese foods from the mid-fifteenth century to the present day in contexts that are political, economic, cultural, social, and religious. Diverse contributors--including anthropologists, historians, sociologists, a tea master, and a chef--address a range of issues such as medieval banquet cuisine, the tea ceremony, table manners, cookbooks in modern times, food during the U.S. occupation period, eating and dining out during wartimes, the role of heirloom vegetables in the revitalization of rural areas, children's lunches, and the gentrification of blue-collar foods.

Framed by two reoccurring themes--
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food in relation to status --
the collection considers the complicated relationships between the globalization of foodways and the integrity of national identity through eating habits. Focusing on the consumption of Western foods, heirloom foods, once-taboo foods, and contemporary Japanese cuisines, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present shows how Japanese concerns for and consumption of food have relevance and resonance with other foodways around the world.


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Eric C. Rath
is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas and the author of The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art.
Stephanie Assmann
is a lecturer at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and the author of Value Change and Social Stratification in Japan: Aspects of Women's Consumer Behaviour.

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Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan



Eric C. Rath

December 2010
ISBN: 9780520262270

How did one dine with a shogun?
Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questions, and to trace the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. Rath shows how medieval “fantasy food” rituals—where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed—were continued by early modern writers. The book offers the first extensive introduction to Japanese cookbooks, recipe collections, and gastronomic writings of the period and traces the origins of dishes like tempura, sushi, and sashimi while documenting Japanese cooking styles and dining customs.

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Gopan Bread Maker

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Gopan Bread Maker

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SANYO Announces the World First
Rice Bread Cooker "GOPAN"
that Can Easily Bake Rice Bread from Rice Grain at Home

Tokyo, July 13, 2010 -
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) is pleased to announce the release of the world first rice bread cooker "GOPAN " that can easily bake rice bread in every home from rice grain. The product will be released for sale on October 8, 2010.

The Gopan looks similar to a rice cooker. Just add 220 grams of rice, 210 grams of water, sugar, salt and shortening in the bread pan, and gluten and dry yeast in the unit's automatic dispenser, and the machine grinds the grain, and kneads and bakes the dough in about four hours.

Rice is the principal food in Japan. However, the consumption of domestic rice has decreased by half compared to 1962. It is feared that the decreasing rice demand may negatively impact the development of technology in the agriculture field, and therefore slow improvement in the taste of rice, which will further contribute to the domestic consumption decrease. Meanwhile, the number of people concerned about the reliability of food has increased. Also, more and more people are checking farm producer's information before buying cooking ingredients.




世界の人々に健康で楽しい、お米ライフを提案する
おうちのお米で、毎日手軽に「パン」がつくれる
世界初！ライスブレッドクッカー「GOPAN（ゴパン）」を発売
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GOPAN is a play of words with

GOHAN, cooked rice
and
PAN, Japanese for Bread



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Bread (pan) Brot



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