4 Jun 2015

WASHOKU / EDO - history of sugar

LINK
http://washokufood.blogspot.jp/2008/02/wasanbon.html

All kinds of sugar (砂糖 satoo)
see below

. satookibi, satoo kibi 甘蔗 Satokibi, sugar cane .

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History of Sugar in Japan
Documents show that sugar was first brought to Japan from China in the mid-eighth century as a luxury used mainly as a medicine. The primary source of sweetening in ancient times was either maltose candy or amazura ivy extract. As trade with the continent flourished from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, imports of sugar increased and its use expanded as a sweetener used in cooking. The practice of the tea ceremony spread among the upper classes during this period, and sweets made with sugar were developed to accompany the tea. The tradition of sweets that evolved along with the tea ceremony—virtual works of art created from sugar—form a culture of confectionery that Japan can be proud of. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, when sugar cane began to be cultivated in Japan, that sugar became more readily available to the common people.
-- Evolution of a Culture of Sweets
-- Japan's Distinctive Sweet Cuisine
- source : kikkoman.com/foodforum -



. Tanuma Okitsugu 田沼意次 .
encouraged the trade of white European sugar via the merchants of Nagasaki.
He also introduced the plant satokibi , first grown at his request at a Nichiren temple, the Ikegami Honmon-Ji 池上本門寺 in the South of Edo. From there its growth spread to other suitable areas of Japan.


- Ikegami Honmon-Ji 池上本門寺 - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Sweetness and Empire:
Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan




I argue that although sugar was consumed as a luxury item in early-modern Japan, in the early decades of the twentieth century, and especially during the war years, the consumption of sweets became inseparable from the idea of Japanese modernity, linked to the act of consumption within the sphere of Japanese empire.

- source : Barak Kushner (バラク・クシュナー) -

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