Food from Japan (washoku)

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The Japanese Food Saijiki

和食歳時記　　


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Explanation

Washoku 和食, the traditional food of Japan, is famous for being quite healthy.

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Like a good haiku, washoku is dependent on the seasons for fresh ingredients.
Even the traditional sweets, wagashi (和菓子) have a seasonal component to it.

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The Japanese food needs its own saijiki： 和食歳時記!
I will try and compile it here.

Gabi Greve, December 2006

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................... Spring

Pickles and other spring dishes


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................... Summer


Inari Sushi (inarizushi いなり寿司)

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Jelly strips (tokoroten) 心太, 心天 (ところてん)
..... tokoroten 石花菜（ところてん）
"big heart" kokorobuto こころぶと
"heart and heaven", kokoroten こころてん


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Perilla, beefsteak plant (shiso) Japan

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dryed plums,ume boshi 梅干 (うめぼし)

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white rice-flower dumplings, shiratama 白玉 (しらたま)
. "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. They can be combined with fruit, ice cream or jelly. They usually imply the daytime.


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................... Autumn

Chrysanthemum sweets (wagashi)

Saury Fish (sanma) Japan. Pacific Saury. Cololabis saira


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................... Winter

Japanese Food to keep you warm


Oden hodgepodge stew


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


Salt (shio) and salted winter food Japan
salted salmon, shiozake 塩鮭 (しおざけ) and MANY MORE !


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................... Topics for Haiku

Raw Fish: Sashimi and Sushi ... and rice balls (onigiri, o-nigiri)


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From our WKD library:

Medicine Day (kusuri no hi)Japan. Medicine-related kigo.
Chinese Medicine as food for your health !

Portions, large food portions (yamamori, oomori) Japan


Essays

"Kaiseki 懐石", a traditional, multi-course seasonal dinner

Real Food of Japan
by Roger Pulvers, December 2006

Food of Japan
by Naomichi Ishige

Food of the World: RICE
by Te-Tzu Chang

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WASHOKU:
Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen
by Elizabeth Andoh

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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way

External LINKs

Mr. Cabbage
Wearing layer upon layer of clothes
Even in winter, he's not cold

Zhang Junjun, China, age 10

World Children's Haiku about Food

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HAIKU

Japanese food -
a taste of home
in a winter night

Gabi Greve

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Japanese food !
the eyes are mightier than
the stomach

Nakayama Ishino, 中山石野, December 2006


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Related words

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


***** Food from India

***** Spices from India


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