江戸時代の朝ごはんはなぜ質素だったのか？庶民の食文化と一汁一菜の知恵【江戸の暮らし】

Why couldn't farmers in the Edo period, who cultivated rice, eat their fill of white rice every morning? This installment of "Illustrated Life in Edo" explores the breakfasts of Edo-period farmers, exploring the relationship between rice and land tax, "kate-meshi" (rice mixed with barley and other grains), the simple one-soup, one-dish meals, and the wisdom of daily life that supported rural communities. For Edo-period farmers, rice wasn't just for their own consumption. Rice paid as land tax. Rice sold for cash. Rice saved for festivals and celebrations. At their daily tables, they mixed rice with locally available ingredients such as barley, millet, barnyard millet, potatoes, radishes, and their leaves, distributing their limited food resources throughout the day. The seemingly simple breakfast wasn't simply due to poverty. It was also about saving fuel. Eating quickly on busy mornings. Not wasting what was harvested from the fields. They used their food with lunch and dinner in mind. The small bowls contained practical ingenuity for continuing life in rural areas. Those who grew rice didn't necessarily have free rein to eat it. Let's look at the structure of Edo society, which revolved around rice, starting with the breakfast of Edo-period farmers. Note that dietary habits at the time varied depending on the region, season, household wealth, land productivity, and the circumstances of the domain or village. This video is based on multiple sources and focuses on scenes imagined in a rural area of ​​the Kanto region during the late Edo period. The conversations between Sakichi, Otoyo, and the children in the video are fictional to make life at the time easier to understand. They are not reproductions of the statements or records of specific real people. The "Great Edo Life Illustrations" series introduces Edo-period food culture, rural life, tenement houses, work, and the wisdom of ordinary people through scenes of daily life. If you enjoyed the video, please subscribe to the channel and give it a thumbs up. [Main References and Sources] Shoichiro Arizono "Everyday Food of Common People in the Early Modern Period: Could Farmers Not Eat Rice?" Kaiseisha, 2007 Makoto Takeuchi (Supervisor) / Manabu Oishi, Hiroshi Ozawa, Hirofumi Yamamoto (Editors) "Visual Wide Edo Period Museum, 2nd Edition" Shogakukan, 2013 Naoki Hashimoto "A History of Japanese Dining: Tradition and Innovation in Japanese Food Culture" Bensei Publishing, 2015 Hitomi Kikuchi "Illustrated Guide to Edo Life: The Daily Lives of Women" Tokyodo Publishing, 2015 Masaaki Hirano "Japanese Food Culture" Chuokoron-sha, 1991 Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries "The Occurrence of Beriberi" Ehime Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Database "Memories of Ehime" "Edo Period Dietary Habits" National Diet Library Reference Collaborative Database "I want to know what staple foods, other than rice, ordinary people ate from the Heian period through the Edo and Meiji periods." *In this video, while referencing historical materials and research, some expressions and scene compositions have been simplified for easier viewing. #EdoPeriod #EdoLife #JapaneseHistory #EdoFoodCulture #IllustratedLifeInEdo