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Early Japanese Food History
Patterns and Change
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Japan
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Jōmon (13,000 bce to 900 bce)
• Seasonal Migrations–Winter: Hunting deer, boar, monkey,
rabbit– Spring: Coastal Shellfish– Summer: Fishing, Foraging– Autumn: Mountain Foraging, nuts,
berries
• Later Jōmon: Horticulture– Swidden (Slash & Burn)–Melons, Burdock, Beans, Barley, Millet– Pottery
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Jomon Pottery
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Yayoi (900 bce-250 ce)• Early Agriculture– Japonica Rice, cast seeds, dependent on
rain– 5 Grains: Rice, Barley, Millet, Wheat,
Buckwheat. Also Soybeans.– Swidden, Fishing, Hunting continue– Pigs Domesticated. Octopus traps.
• Later: – Rice paddy irrigation and seedling
transplant– imported iron tools
• Problems: Spring Hungers and Warfare
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Yayoi Pottery and Tools
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Tomb Culture (3rd - 6th century)
• Yayoi patterns continue• Stoneware• Sake fermentation• Chopsticks• Population Growth• Political Consolidation
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Tomb-era Pottery and Kamado
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Nagoya: Atsuta ShrineSake Barrels & Shinto Priest
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Ritsuryo Era Tribute
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Classical Japan: 7th c. to 12th c.• Population Stagnates, even declines
– Epidemic Disease, Cooling, Deforestation and Overproduction
• Taxes based on Rice– Irrigation sporadic, difficult to maintain– Iron in short supply
• Typical Diet: "brown rice, wheat, barley, salt, seaweed, bean paste [miso], vinegar, melons ... lots of rice wine. ... mushrooms, chestnuts, and local fish and game." (Farris 2009, 48)
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Classical Japan, cont.• Agriculture: –more oxen, plant-based fertilizers, double-
cropping dry fields– oils (hemp, sesame, bean)
• Peasant classes lived on edge of starvation, continued swidden, hunting, foraging
• Elites lived on tax and tribute from estates– "Their diet was surprisingly poor, mostly
polished rice, various vegetables, fish and shellfish, and lots of rice wine. ... susceptible to all sorts of chronic diseases." (Farris 2009, 73)
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18c Watanabe ShikoFarmer's Ox
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Medieval Japan (13th to 16th c.)
• Population growing: epidemics, famines slow• Agriculture:– Iron Tools available again, rising use of oxen– manure as fertilizer, water wheel irrigation– "Island Dry Fields", double-cropping of rice begins– Champa Rice
• "more side dishes such as salted fish and noodles" (Farris 2009, 128)
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17c Screen: Water Wheel
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Medieval Screen: Rice Planting
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New Foods
• Zen Buddhist Monk Eisai brings Tea from China. Buddhists also introduce sweet bean paste, steamed buns, and Tofu
• Foreign Influences: Teppan yaki, Tempura, Castela cake, pepper.
• Soy sauce, ginger, wasabi become widespread
• Miso, soy and rice form complete protein
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Early Modern Japan (17th to 19th c.)
• Agricultural Boom: Peace Dividend–Widespread double-cropping, seed
selection– Fertilization: "Night Soil", seedcake, fish– Columbian Exchange: Sweet Potatoes,
green beans, maize, red peppers, pumpkins, watermelon, spinach, chili peppers, peanuts
– Spread of beriberi as polished rice became more common
– Hunting declined, except wildfowl; domesticated pig, chicken popular
• Lunch
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Early Modern Agriculture
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Everyday Food"What we think of as the traditional Japanese diet of steamed rice accompanied by soup, one or more side dishes, and pickles, developed slowly... Even samurai families often had a daily diet of coarse grains or rice mixed with other grains with a side dish of fish or something extra for the master, but only soup, pickles and possibly boiled vegetables for the rest of the family and the servants." (Hanley 1997, 86)
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Special Occasions"salted salmon, tuna, bean curd, dried bonito, squid, herring roe, and dried herring - all purchased at a nearby town - eggs, dried nameko (an edible fungus), sea bream, fried bean curd, aya (sweetfish), horseradish, and the list goes on. ... "Sugar was a luxury item [but] even people in the northern, poorer sections of the country could buy it and did." (Hanley 1997, 87)
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Early Modern Food• "in Japan, one-pot meals had one or
more grains - usually including rice - as their base, and other foods, particularly vegetables, were added appropriately during the cooking process." (Hanley 1997, 79)
• Shinano: 20 different rice strains, buckwheat, beans, daikon radish, vegetables, grasshoppers, horse chestnuts, wild greens
• Urban Restaurants: sushi, soba, ramen, rice cake/bean soup, eel, tea houses
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17c Kusumi Morikage: Rice Cultivation Four Seasons, left
panels
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17c Kusumi Morikage: Rice Cultivation Four Seasons, center
panels
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17c Kusumi Morikage: Rice Cultivation Four Seasons, right
panels
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Yamaguchi: Flooded Rice Field w/ Tractor
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Yamaguchi: Dry Rice Field w/ Hoe
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Yamaguchi: Replanted Rice Field w/
Blower
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Rice Harvest
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Nagoya: Rice Harvest Drying
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Bento Lunch on Lacquer
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Kanazawa: Rice Bales as Restaurant
Sign
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Osaka Rice Docks
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Nagoya: Soba Shop
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Sources• Susan Hanley, Everyday Things in
Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture, UCP, 1997
• William Wayne Farris, Japan to 1600: A Social And Economic History, U Hawaii Press, 2009
• Yamakawa, Nihonshi Sogo Zuroku [Comprehensive Visual History of Japan]
• Edo: Art in Japan, 1615-1868 by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Other Pictures by Jonathan Dresner– http://www.flickr.com/photos/jondresner/