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In 2013 'traditional Japanese dietary culture' (washoku) was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Washoku's predecessor was 'national people's cuisine', an attempt during the Second World War to create a uniform diet for all citizens. Japan's Cuisines reveals the diversity of Japanese cuisine and explains how Japan's modern food culture arose through the direction of private and public institutions. Readers will discover how tea came to be portrayed as the origin of Japanese cuisine, how lunch became a gourmet meal and how regions on Japan's periphery are reasserting their distinct food cultures. This is a fascinating book that reveals how the cuisine from the land of the rising sun shapes national, local and personal identity.

Food habits --- J4152 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- food --- E-books --- Food --- History

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Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods--but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals that sushi began as a fermented food with a sour taste, used as a means to preserve fish. This book, the first history of sushi in English, traces sushi's development from China to Japan and then internationally, and from street food to high-class cuisine. Included are two dozen historical and original recipes that show the diversity of sushi and how to prepare it. Written by an expert on Japanese food history, Oishii is a must read for understanding sushi's past, its variety and sustainability, and how it became one of the world's greatest anonymous cuisines.

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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.

Cooking, Japanese --- Food habits --- Food --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- 1400. --- 1868. --- anthropology. --- asian cultural history. --- asian foods. --- culinary history. --- early modern food. --- early modern japan. --- fantasy food. --- food historians. --- food lovers. --- food rituals. --- food symbolism. --- food. --- gastronomic writings. --- history and food. --- japanese chefs. --- japanese cookbooks. --- japanese cooking styles. --- japanese cuisine. --- japanese culinary history. --- japanese dining customs. --- japanese recipes. --- medieval japan. --- nonfiction account. --- sashimi. --- shogun. --- social history. --- sushi. --- tempura.

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Dating from the 15th to early 20th century, 160 works from the rich material culture of Japanese nō and kyōgen theatre (nōgaku) - including masks and costumes as well as paintings, musical instruments and libretti - have been selected from the collections of the National Noh Theatre, Tokyo and the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. A program of nō theatre generally consists of one or two nō plays with a kyōgen interlude. Both theatre forms deal with the multitude of human emotions, but while nō is a more dream-like pursuit of an ideal beauty to portray the essence of human nature, kyōgen strives for realistic expression through humour. The beauty and elegance that pervades the world of nō and the spirited, playful mood that characterise kyōgen plays are echoed in the masks and costumes, which distinguish nōgaku from other forms of traditional Japanese performing arts. The objects in this book represent Japan's unique aesthetic sensibility and the excellence of its traditional arts and crafts. The splendour of the masks, robes and paintings invites viewers to appreciate and better understand these complex and sumptuous worlds.

Nō --- Kyōgen --- Theaters --- J6834 --- Kabuki kyōgen --- Nō kyōgen --- Noh --- Shimai --- Theater --- Costume --- Stage-setting and scenery --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- nō and kyōgen (noh)