Japanese Food and Drink, Then, Now, and Way Back When - Ep 70

It’s the second half of our two-episode series on Japan! This week, Amber and Anna explore some of the traditions and material culture surrounding Japanese food. We research rice, sample sake, banter about bento, and MAYBE MAKE THE BEST SERIES OF PUNS EVER HEARD ON THE SHOW.

Links

• Rice in Japan: History, Kinds of Rice and Cooking and Eating Rice (Facts and Details)

• How Japanese Traditions Work (How Stuff Works)

• Rice: It's More Than Food In Japan (Stanford SPICE)

• A Brief History of Japanese Sake (Culture Trip)

• Brewing Behind Barbed Wire: An Archaeology of Saké at Amache (Digital Commons @ DU)

• The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian Forest (Gastro Obscura)

• The controversial history of the bento box (Timeline)

• Sampuru: Japanese Food Models (Tofugo)

• The Japanese Tea Ceremony (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

• The Story Behind the Japanese Tea Ceremony (Culture Trip)

• Ancient Pottery Reveals Japanese Hunter-Gatherers’ Taste for Fish (SciNews)

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The Prehistoric Japanese Pt 1 - Ep 69

This week, it’s a sponsored episode (thanks Elizabeth!) and part one in a two-part series on ancient Japan. This week—the Jomon, prehistoric Japanese hunter-gatherers, and their descendants, the Ainu indigenous people. Also, some bears.

Links

• Spotlight on Research: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About the Prehistory of the Japanese Islands? (Hokkaido University)

• The Untold Story of Japan’s First People (Sapiens)

• A-hunting we will go! (Heritage of Japan)

• Tattooing Among Japan’s Ainu People (Lars Krutak)

• Ainu Decorative Needlework (TRC Leiden)

• 20 Vintage Portraits of Japanese Ainu Women With Their Traditional Tattooed Lips (Heritage Daily)

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