= Yoshoku washoku =

“Wa-shoku” was invented as a term at the same time as “yo-shoku” was being incorporated into Meiji Japan society reboot. “Yoshoku” and “washoku” were terms developed under Meiji era when the Meiji “restoration” pre-text usurpers destroyed the Tokugawa Shogunate and sought to replace embarrasing Tokugawa era Japanese culture with reinvented customs to appear modernized in […]

= Killer rice? =

Rice plays a big role in washoku presentation to make the world believe the Japanese always had a widespread traditional food culture based on rice.   The washoku myth has its roots in Meiji Japan.   Japanese culture was invented during Meiji Japan, but before then, rice consumption was too irregular to even become a common part of Japanese […]