= Artsy washoku new fusions become archaic traditions =

Japanese history was rehashed in modernizing English outpouring (at one point the Meiji government considered replacing Japanese with English) as the past Japanese culture was tossed out and officially reinvented by the Meiji government. Not only food was reinvented during Meiji Japan, Japanese culture was tossed out (laws passed banning open nudity, communal onsen bathing, […]

= Rice was not a staple food =

Rice was never quite a staple to the Japanese commoners for hundreds if not perhaps thousands of years despite farming it to an extent.  The rice growing methods and tools were poor, no widespread draught animals to rely upon, less caloric intake sustained less caloric physical output through overwhelmingly human labor, so that despite laboring in […]