No pressure, I realize how much work goes into making these videos, and I really appreciate it. I'm 60 and just learning Japanese history. You are one of my most valuable sources. I find I check my subscriptions every few days to see if Buyuuden, Linfamy, or the Shogunate have posted anything new. I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas. Lol. So, every time you think "I gotta make time to get something ready for the channel", just remember, your delays just make one old guy out there remember the boy that he used to be eagerly awaiting Christmas, and that's a good way to feel. Do not be rushed.
Those words mean a lot. Thank you! I'll continue doing my best to put out quality content for you to enjoy... at a pace that allows me to maintain my sanity (haha).
I was at home making some simple sushi, when it it occurred to me I didn’t even know it’s history so I hopped on RUclips and found your video thank you. This was extremely educational and enjoyable.
This is probably the best explainer of sushi I have ever seen on YT. Great job. I would love to go back to Japan to try the traditional styles you can't find in the west some day. You should also do one for other Japanese food icons, such as noodles (somen, ramen, soba, etc.) and historical Japanese cuisine in general.
I would love to do more eventually for some of the other bigs foods! One of the main info sources I used was called "Sushi, Tempura, Soba, Unagi: The Birth of Edo's Four Great Foods," so just with that book alone at least three more videos are theoretically possible 😁
I love history that focuses on the culture and popular sentiment of the time. Too many history channels tend to just focus only on important figures and historical battles, which are cool too, but these type of videos give us a better picture of what life was like. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Right, romanticizing the past is fun (and I do it all the time 😅), but sometimes it's good to take a step back and remember that, even 1,000 years ago, people were still people.
i usually dont write comments but i just have to say, your channel is SO wildly underrated. your videos are amazing both in production value and substance, and your fondness and enthusiasm for japanese history is so evident that its infectious. way back in school i couldnt care less for history but with your videos i find myself going on long history rants to my friends. thank you so much for putting your work out into the world, and i dearly hope youll continue to do so! :)
As a fan of both regular history and food history, this was really interesting. I'd have never thought the earlier forms of sushi were that heavily fermented, but given the state of food preservation it makes a lot of sense.
Glad you liked it! Yeah, prior to making this video, I didn't even realize that fermenting fish for the better part of a year and then consuming it was even, like... a viable thing 😅
"Hey this is great and all but, I can still smell things" "Yea and I'm not having near as much diarrhea as I would like to be" "You know what I was thinking?" "Raw Fish?" "Raw fish exactly what I was thinking" "Man we are so in synch."
I LIVED IN JAPAN, FOR 5YRS, '67-'72, I WAS TOLD, SUSHI AS WE KNOW IT NOW, BEGAN AS HAND FOOD @ GAMBLING HOUSES, MY 1ST SOIRRE WAS ON MY 1ST DAY IN JAPAN, IN SHINJUKU, HUNGRY, WENT IN WAS WARMLY GREETED, LOVED THE SUSHI!
I enjoyed this video and would love to see more videos that focus on the cultural history of Japan! The line drawings you used to illustrate the street vendors and small sushi shops are wonderful!
I have watched several of your videos now and I think your content is magnificent. Clearly well researched and presented with full disclosure. I find the juxtapositioning of your satirical, almost comical, introduction followed by the very scholarly narration and story presentation is an interesting approach. An approach perhaps worth studying. Well done.
Amazing food history video. The deep research and passion for the topic are really shining through. Saved it in my favourites. Keep up with the good work, it is really well-done!
we still ferment fish in sweden we use herring. opening the can should be done outside in the open air and not in the kitchen. fermented herring is served whith cooked potatoes. thanks for this very intresting video about sushi. keep up the good joob. i like the sea weed rolls with rice . i am very fond of sushi. 👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
・many thanks for this video which I duly enjoyed and of course highly appreciate. [I'm glad that I do not have to read those books myself you referred to at the beginning (although I'm a Japanese ^^ well, my eyes are getting older tbh.)]. I watched a few other videos related to sushi but not like this one which talks about it quite in depth. ・The typical Japanese food I missed while I was abroad long time is Sushi. When you are in the NA or western Europe you can find sushi restaurants relatively easily nowadays as long as you are in a large city but it's not always the case when you live in a South East country, for example. ・I expected to hear a story about fishermen in the Edo period who in the morning took out vinegared rice (which does not go bad easily [and soy sauce]) only, when leaving a port and cooked/sliced fishes for lunch on a boat that were caught while fishing. The start of the 握り寿司 or hand-rolled sushi. Maybe this portion of the history is not mentioned enough in those books, I suspect. Thanks again and I'd like to add that I'm watchin your other history videos one by one continuously. Keep uploading good job when you are ready for it. (^▽^)/
Interesting! Yes, that story was not included in any of the books I used, but food history is a complicated thing so I'm not surprised to hear that there are other factors that contributed to the creation of nigiri-zushi. I wonder if those fishermen were the cormorant fishermen who are famous for their namanare sushi. Anyway, thanks for watching! More videos to come!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory In my understanding naresushi/namanare sushi uses river/lake fish like crucian carp (鮒 フナ), while nigiri-zushi uses various type of sea fishes. It's said that freshwater fishes are prone to have higher risk of parasites compared to sea fishes. It could be one reason of the need of fermenting prosess of freshwater fishes other than the needs of preservation for winter. A clear distinction of narezushi and nigiri-zushi looks like to exist here in the sense Nigiri-zushi assmes no preservation but on the contrary it must be taken soon while it is fresh. By fishermen in the above I meant sea fishermen. Just my guess though. ^^
@@GOMBE3 That makes a lot of sense! Thanks to my city-boy upbringing, I didn't even give any thought to the differences that might exist between sushi made with freshwater vs. saltwater fish (nor did I see it mentioned much in my sources). I wish I had been able to include that explanation in the video! Hopefully people will read this comment so they can get that extra bit of information. Thank you!
Fantastic little video on the history of zushi! As a Japanese history buff I am so impressed with your content - thank you! Keep the vids coming. *munches on hosomaki*
Great content! I love learning about other cultures food history. Japan has such a rich and storied culture and it really translate to their meals and cooking techniques. 🍣 🍱 I’m eating a delicious California roll while watching!
こんにちはAdamさん、this video was interesting I did not know much about sushi so it I really it’s was really fun to watch. Is the fist time know I have seen another 漢字 for 寿司 I like that you can make videos about many things and I think it would cool to make more videos like this about the history about culture or just about japan regions. 次の動画を楽しみしています
いつもご視聴いただきありがとうございます！😁 Yeah, I felt like sushi is one of those things that everyone knows but no one really knows that much about, so I wanted to try doing a deep dive on it. Glad you enjoyed it! 次ももう作成中です！
this was absolutely amazing, thank you so much, i really enjoyed this video while eating my gohan hehehe,incredibly well made, thank you for sharing for free 💖
Sushi has been introduced in US in 1981 by a Japanese named Ichi. He is a father of Americanized Sushi. Basically Japanese sushi doesn’t come with crunchy and spicy mayonnaise or whatever sauce except soy sauce and Unami sauce.
At a Japanese Family House Party in the 1960's, many foods were presented, including 'Futomaki' or 'Fat Maki'. the slices were thinner than typical Maki slices, but equal in volume, and displaying the contents generously given its larger diameter.
Narezushi is similar to the preparation called 'buro' in North Central, Luzon in Philippines. Buro is cooked rice that is salted and fermented by itself or layered with: fish, shrimp, mustard leaves, meat etc. It is then fermented and preserved. Traditionally done with surplus or lower quality rice with seasonal freshwater fish. I don't know of any preparation that is the same in Mainland Asia. I do not know either of the significance of mountainous regions in the latter Japanese origin idea. In the Philippines at least, the mountain areas tended to smoke for preservation because of the abundance of wood in comparison to lowlands under acres of rice cultivation.
Love the video but one thing got to me at the end: California rolls were NOT invented in California. They were invented by Japanese-born chef Hidekazu Tojo in the late 1970s in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
I heard when I was kid (living in Japan) that the rice ball we know today (omusubi or onigiri) originated during the campaign in Korea under Toyotomi Hideyoshi - rice would be cooked in the day and made into balls so that at night they didn't have to light fires. Not sure how true that is - but it's one story for the "nigiri" part of sushi
Speaking of sushi, I still want to try funazushi or narezushi, but finding any explanation of how it's fermented is not easy Though you video explaination makes it easier to understand.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Absolutely an understatement, I even looked to see if anyone on RUclips attempted narezushi, and no luck. The salting of fish I already understand, but it's the rice that makes me afraid to try it. I ferment things all the time, but I don't not know how to safely have the rice ferment. Maybe one day I'll find it! I think it would be a useful skill to learn
I am from Shiga, and have been familiar to "Funa-zushi." My grandmother used to buy a barrel every year and give some fish to each family. My grandfather liked to eat some of the rice with fish, I recall. I myself prefer the female with eggs, but my husband likes without them.
My brother actually buys packages of seaweed chips just because he likes to eat them as a snack. I don't know if he's ever tried sushi- I know my parents don't eat it. I've tried it. I liked the spicy dragon roll, but it had a sweet sauce that compensated for the vinegar. (It also had a crispy component to balance out the texture.) I really don't like sour foods (is that odd for someone who used to eat lemon slices as a toddler?), so I generally don't like sushi. Not that I look down on people who do like it- if they were raised eating more sour foods and kept a liking for them, that just means there's more viable food options for them. I have a lot of food intolerances and I'm very picky, and I sometimes worry how badly that would work out for me in any kind of crisis where food options were limited for an extended period of time. I think people who can eat just about anything would thrive while I'd be lucky to survive.
There’s no need to look at far-flung places of South China or SE Asia to search for the origin of sushi. The ancient Sinitic people in Northern China were quite fond of consuming raw meat and their menu included raw fish, raw deer, raw pork, raw beef, etc. There was even mentioning of a Late Han era general named Chen Deng who enjoyed eating raw fish and in the end he died of parasite infection in his stomach.
Make a video telling us about you! How did you come to study Japanese history? What got you into Japanophile mode early on? Tell us about your life and where it took you!
I'm flattered that you are interested! I'm not sure if the actual story would be that interesting, but perhaps when we get to 20k subs I can talk a bit about myself and do a Q&A or something.
So, basically it was started as preservative food and popularized and spread quickly as fast food in Edo period. Just about everything in Japanese culture was started in the Edo period and just about everything was made for the commoners. Of course, aristocrats(samurai) existed but their lifestyles were just as humble as the commoners.(according to code of samurai honor, they were expected to live simple life.)
That sushi plate costing less then $4? You must be in Japan. If you see $4 sushi in a japanese supermarket in SF bay area, if you eat it be ready for food poisoning
You forgot the importance of the 600 year period where the Japanese elites educated by Buddhist and where Meat/fish was not allow to be eaten in the Japanese diet.. So the meat portion is a latter additive. Vinegared rice which allow the rice to last longer and still retain context of the rice. This became known as sushi. Prior to sushi is Zushi a fish fermented in rice bran. Zushi not allow to be eaten during this 600 year period where the word sushi developed to the true meaning of the Japanese word Vinegared Rice.
I once watched a mukbanger eat 10,000 calories of dense, decadent, vibrantly colored, americanized sushi Now im wondering what that video would look like if it was old world sushi instead. That table would be a lot more full, and there would be a much worse smell
Sorry what ?? BLOWFISH skin or seaweed?? Meaning at some point in time blowfish skin was just a totally attainable thing to have on hand for average sushi chefs?
….I’m sorry….but this was THE most nausea-inducing vid I have EVER seen…(For those of us who can barely tolerate very well-cooked, non-fishy fish, hearing about : raw, fermented carp” …”the taste & texture of cheese” 🤢….was, Oh, Lordy, lordy ….)
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No pressure, I realize how much work goes into making these videos, and I really appreciate it. I'm 60 and just learning Japanese history. You are one of my most valuable sources. I find I check my subscriptions every few days to see if Buyuuden, Linfamy, or the Shogunate have posted anything new. I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas. Lol. So, every time you think "I gotta make time to get something ready for the channel", just remember, your delays just make one old guy out there remember the boy that he used to be eagerly awaiting Christmas, and that's a good way to feel. Do not be rushed.
Those words mean a lot. Thank you! I'll continue doing my best to put out quality content for you to enjoy... at a pace that allows me to maintain my sanity (haha).
this is the sweetest comment ive ever read
ppl
I was at home making some simple sushi, when it it occurred to me I didn’t even know it’s history so I hopped on RUclips and found your video thank you. This was extremely educational and enjoyable.
This is probably the best explainer of sushi I have ever seen on YT. Great job. I would love to go back to Japan to try the traditional styles you can't find in the west some day. You should also do one for other Japanese food icons, such as noodles (somen, ramen, soba, etc.) and historical Japanese cuisine in general.
I would love to do more eventually for some of the other bigs foods! One of the main info sources I used was called "Sushi, Tempura, Soba, Unagi: The Birth of Edo's Four Great Foods," so just with that book alone at least three more videos are theoretically possible 😁
I love history that focuses on the culture and popular sentiment of the time. Too many history channels tend to just focus only on important figures and historical battles, which are cool too, but these type of videos give us a better picture of what life was like. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Right, romanticizing the past is fun (and I do it all the time 😅), but sometimes it's good to take a step back and remember that, even 1,000 years ago, people were still people.
i usually dont write comments but i just have to say, your channel is SO wildly underrated. your videos are amazing both in production value and substance, and your fondness and enthusiasm for japanese history is so evident that its infectious. way back in school i couldnt care less for history but with your videos i find myself going on long history rants to my friends. thank you so much for putting your work out into the world, and i dearly hope youll continue to do so! :)
As a fan of both regular history and food history, this was really interesting. I'd have never thought the earlier forms of sushi were that heavily fermented, but given the state of food preservation it makes a lot of sense.
Glad you liked it! Yeah, prior to making this video, I didn't even realize that fermenting fish for the better part of a year and then consuming it was even, like... a viable thing 😅
linfamyがいつものいい加減な知識で日本の寿司解説動画を作ってたから、こんぐらい知識のある人が英語でちゃんとした歴史を発信してくれて嬉しい。浅い知識で日本の間違った歴史を堂々とRUclipsで発信してる人や、日本の国際的イメージを下げるためにあえて間違った日本の歴史・文化を世界に英語で発信してる人が多いからこういうちゃんとした日本の歴史・文化を知ってる人がもっと増えて欲しい。
お褒めに与り光栄です。これからも頑張ります！
"Hey this is great and all but, I can still smell things"
"Yea and I'm not having near as much diarrhea as I would like to be"
"You know what I was thinking?"
"Raw Fish?"
"Raw fish exactly what I was thinking"
"Man we are so in synch."
😂
I LIVED IN JAPAN, FOR 5YRS, '67-'72, I WAS TOLD, SUSHI AS WE KNOW IT NOW, BEGAN AS HAND FOOD @ GAMBLING HOUSES, MY 1ST SOIRRE WAS ON MY 1ST DAY IN JAPAN, IN SHINJUKU, HUNGRY, WENT IN WAS WARMLY GREETED, LOVED THE SUSHI!
This documentary was great! It deserves a far higher view count.
Thank you! Hopefully it'll get there eventually.
I enjoyed this video and would love to see more videos that focus on the cultural history of Japan! The line drawings you used to illustrate the street vendors and small sushi shops are wonderful!
I hope to do more in the future too!
I have watched several of your videos now and I think your content is magnificent. Clearly well researched and presented with full disclosure. I find the juxtapositioning of your satirical, almost comical, introduction followed by the very scholarly narration and story presentation is an interesting approach. An approach perhaps worth studying. Well done.
we just had some sushi last night and got to see this today, thanks man! hope all is well ace adams my man!
Ayy thanks for stopping by man! Hope all is well with you too!
Amazing food history video. The deep research and passion for the topic are really shining through. Saved it in my favourites. Keep up with the good work, it is really well-done!
This video goes straight into my GOAT playlist. No doubt. Best kind of youtube videos.
great video, your way of telling a story is great and i would love to see more on this kind of subject more focused on culture and normal life
Thank you! I hope to do more culture/daily life stuff in the future too!
Thanks
Thank you so very much! I really appreciate the support.
Thank you for your production . Well spoken .
Thank you for watching!
Sushi is the only food that I could eat every day and never grow tired of it. Great video. Long live Sushi ✨💜
dude you're so cool ! 丁寧に作りました動画有難うう
we still ferment fish in sweden we use herring.
opening the can should be done outside in the open air and not in the kitchen.
fermented herring is served whith cooked potatoes.
thanks for this very intresting video about sushi.
keep up the good joob.
i like the sea weed rolls with rice .
i am very fond of sushi.
👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Interesting! It's cool to know that it's done in non-Asian cultures too. I would love to try it sometime! 😋Thanks for watching!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Go all the way and try Icelandic Hakarl, haha.
・many thanks for this video which I duly enjoyed and of course highly appreciate.
[I'm glad that I do not have to read those books myself you referred to at the beginning (although I'm a Japanese ^^ well, my eyes are getting older tbh.)]. I watched a few other videos related to sushi but not like this one which talks about it quite in depth.
・The typical Japanese food I missed while I was abroad long time is Sushi. When you are in the NA or western Europe you can find sushi restaurants relatively easily nowadays as long as you are in a large city but it's not always the case when you live in a South East country, for example.
・I expected to hear a story about fishermen in the Edo period who in the morning took out vinegared rice (which does not go bad easily [and soy sauce]) only, when leaving a port and cooked/sliced fishes for lunch on a boat that were caught while fishing. The start of the 握り寿司 or hand-rolled sushi. Maybe this portion of the history is not mentioned enough in those books, I suspect.
Thanks again and I'd like to add that I'm watchin your other history videos one by one continuously. Keep uploading good job when you are ready for it. (^▽^)/
Interesting! Yes, that story was not included in any of the books I used, but food history is a complicated thing so I'm not surprised to hear that there are other factors that contributed to the creation of nigiri-zushi. I wonder if those fishermen were the cormorant fishermen who are famous for their namanare sushi. Anyway, thanks for watching! More videos to come!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory In my understanding naresushi/namanare sushi uses river/lake fish like crucian carp (鮒 フナ), while nigiri-zushi uses various type of sea fishes. It's said that freshwater fishes are prone to have higher risk of parasites compared to sea fishes. It could be one reason of the need of fermenting prosess of freshwater fishes other than the needs of preservation for winter.
A clear distinction of narezushi and nigiri-zushi looks like to exist here in the sense Nigiri-zushi assmes no preservation but on the contrary it must be taken soon while it is fresh.
By fishermen in the above I meant sea fishermen.
Just my guess though. ^^
@@GOMBE3 That makes a lot of sense! Thanks to my city-boy upbringing, I didn't even give any thought to the differences that might exist between sushi made with freshwater vs. saltwater fish (nor did I see it mentioned much in my sources). I wish I had been able to include that explanation in the video! Hopefully people will read this comment so they can get that extra bit of information. Thank you!
Fantastic little video on the history of zushi! As a Japanese history buff I am so impressed with your content - thank you! Keep the vids coming. *munches on hosomaki*
Glad you enjoyed it! I will continue doing my best!
For those wondering, 'sushi' becomes 'zushi' when talking about a specific form of it, so you say 'maki-zushi' or 'edomaezushi' for example.
Great video! Very informative and well made. Thank you!
Interesting history, never thought such simple dishes has such a long evolved history
これほど詳しい完璧な寿司の歴史の動画も珍しい。
この動画は大変な傑作。資料集めだけでも長い時間と労力がかかったに違いない。
ところで、本棚に「ドクター・ストーン」のマンガがあるね。
アニメが面白いので私も見ている。
ありがとうございます😊そう言っていただけると大変励みになります。
ドクター・ストーン面白いですね！誰かにつっこんでもらいたくてそこに漫画を見えるように置いているので気づいていただいて嬉しいです(笑)
Great content! I love learning about other cultures food history. Japan has such a rich and storied culture and it really translate to their meals and cooking techniques. 🍣 🍱 I’m eating a delicious California roll while watching!
Thanks dude, I've learned a lot from this video. Really got me interested in the less popular forms of sushi
I hope you are rolling in that RUclips money one day.
😊
こんにちはAdamさん、this video was interesting I did not know much about sushi so it I really it’s was really fun to watch. Is the fist time know I have seen another 漢字 for 寿司 I like that you can make videos about many things and I think it would cool to make more videos like this about the history about culture or just about japan regions. 次の動画を楽しみしています
いつもご視聴いただきありがとうございます！😁 Yeah, I felt like sushi is one of those things that everyone knows but no one really knows that much about, so I wanted to try doing a deep dive on it. Glad you enjoyed it! 次ももう作成中です！
Great video, I am about to start a sushi class and needed to brush up on the history and you killed it. 🥰
this was absolutely amazing, thank you so much, i really enjoyed this video while eating my gohan hehehe,incredibly well made, thank you for sharing for free 💖
amazing documentary!!
such a great informative video. reminds me of pbs in the best way
I used to love watching PBS docs as a kid, so that is the highest praise. Thank you!
Sushi has been introduced in US in 1981 by a Japanese named Ichi. He is a father of Americanized Sushi. Basically Japanese sushi doesn’t come with crunchy and spicy mayonnaise or whatever sauce except soy sauce and Unami sauce.
Such a well made video! Thank you
Love your videos ❤❤❤❤
a yes my ancient sushi making technique i haven't used since the Heian era
At a Japanese Family House Party in the 1960's, many foods were presented, including 'Futomaki' or 'Fat Maki'. the slices were thinner than typical Maki slices, but equal in volume, and displaying the contents generously given its larger diameter.
A super video about my favourite food ❤
you make it look so easy handling those chopsticks...i have a pair and the only thing i can eat with it are noodles...
Was stationed in Japan and always enjoyed going to the local ( and very popular ) Sushi-go-round. I was born in Japan too…:-)
Sushi-go-round is pretty great, isn't it?
Dammit, I don't even like sushi and this is making me hungry now. This is a fascinating history of the development of an iconic food.
I got hungry a lot making the video too (haha). Thanks for watching!
Narezushi is similar to the preparation called 'buro' in North Central, Luzon in Philippines. Buro is cooked rice that is salted and fermented by itself or layered with: fish, shrimp, mustard leaves, meat etc. It is then fermented and preserved. Traditionally done with surplus or lower quality rice with seasonal freshwater fish. I don't know of any preparation that is the same in Mainland Asia. I do not know either of the significance of mountainous regions in the latter Japanese origin idea. In the Philippines at least, the mountain areas tended to smoke for preservation because of the abundance of wood in comparison to lowlands under acres of rice cultivation.
Love the video but one thing got to me at the end: California rolls were NOT invented in California. They were invented by Japanese-born chef Hidekazu Tojo in the late 1970s in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
When does he say that i must have missed it!!
I heard when I was kid (living in Japan) that the rice ball we know today (omusubi or onigiri) originated during the campaign in Korea under Toyotomi Hideyoshi - rice would be cooked in the day and made into balls so that at night they didn't have to light fires. Not sure how true that is - but it's one story for the "nigiri" part of sushi
Interesting! I'd love to look into this.
very interesting... thank you.....
Hungry for sushi now!
Then I have done my job!
Speaking of sushi, I still want to try funazushi or narezushi, but finding any explanation of how it's fermented is not easy
Though you video explaination makes it easier to understand.
Yeah I think it would be quite a challenge to try at home
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory
Absolutely an understatement, I even looked to see if anyone on RUclips attempted narezushi, and no luck.
The salting of fish I already understand, but it's the rice that makes me afraid to try it.
I ferment things all the time, but I don't not know how to safely have the rice ferment.
Maybe one day I'll find it! I think it would be a useful skill to learn
I am from Shiga, and have been familiar to "Funa-zushi." My grandmother used to buy a barrel every year and give some fish to each family. My grandfather liked to eat some of the rice with fish, I recall. I myself prefer the female with eggs, but my husband likes without them.
My brother actually buys packages of seaweed chips just because he likes to eat them as a snack. I don't know if he's ever tried sushi- I know my parents don't eat it. I've tried it. I liked the spicy dragon roll, but it had a sweet sauce that compensated for the vinegar. (It also had a crispy component to balance out the texture.) I really don't like sour foods (is that odd for someone who used to eat lemon slices as a toddler?), so I generally don't like sushi. Not that I look down on people who do like it- if they were raised eating more sour foods and kept a liking for them, that just means there's more viable food options for them. I have a lot of food intolerances and I'm very picky, and I sometimes worry how badly that would work out for me in any kind of crisis where food options were limited for an extended period of time. I think people who can eat just about anything would thrive while I'd be lucky to survive.
There’s no need to look at far-flung places of South China or SE Asia to search for the origin of sushi. The ancient Sinitic people in Northern China were quite fond of consuming raw meat and their menu included raw fish, raw deer, raw pork, raw beef, etc. There was even mentioning of a Late Han era general named Chen Deng who enjoyed eating raw fish and in the end he died of parasite infection in his stomach.
And Tungusic peoples like Jurchen and Nanai had traditions of eating raw fish as well.
Off topic what yugioh card is that on the shelf
Legendary Six Samurai Shi-En! I've been waiting for someone to notice that haha
Have you editted this video to cut out some of its original content. People comment but then cant find what thy are even referencing
No editing here! It’s the internet, so people just comment random stuff sometimes.
Look up Filipino buro. It's very similar to early sushi.
Interesting! I did not know about this. Lends credence to the Southeast Asia theory.
Make a video telling us about you! How did you come to study Japanese history? What got you into Japanophile mode early on? Tell us about your life and where it took you!
I'm flattered that you are interested! I'm not sure if the actual story would be that interesting, but perhaps when we get to 20k subs I can talk a bit about myself and do a Q&A or something.
Now I need to go get springbok and make sushi!
This is a variety of sushi I had not heard of before!
I love sushi 🍣
Do washoku!
I’d be very interested in further history on Jesuits in Japan...
Outdoor sushi stalls otherwise known as gas station sushi.
In a sense, yes!
Please do videos
About Geisha history pkease
When I traveled to Japan, I tried Puffer fish and an octopus tentacle that tried to choke me.
I'm glad you made it back alive!
Supermarket sushi is not bad at all.
So, basically it was started as preservative food and popularized and spread quickly as fast food in Edo period.
Just about everything in Japanese culture was started in the Edo period and just about everything was made for the commoners.
Of course, aristocrats(samurai) existed but their lifestyles were just as humble as the commoners.(according to code of samurai honor, they were expected to live simple life.)
Japan land of Samurai, Ninja, and Sushi
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You should do voice acting or narration or something. What a great voice.
That sushi plate costing less then $4? You must be in Japan. If you see $4 sushi in a japanese supermarket in SF bay area, if you eat it be ready for food poisoning
Guilty as charged 😅
People who don't like sushi are missing out ( unless they have an allergy to fish then that's totally understandable.)
You forgot the importance of the 600 year period where the Japanese elites educated by Buddhist and where Meat/fish was not allow to be eaten in the Japanese diet.. So the meat portion is a latter additive. Vinegared rice which allow the rice to last longer and still retain context of the rice. This became known as sushi. Prior to sushi is Zushi a fish fermented in rice bran. Zushi not allow to be eaten during this 600 year period where the word sushi developed to the true meaning of the Japanese word Vinegared Rice.
I think you mean "Nare-zushi." "-Zushi" is just another form of "sushi" when it follows to certain word like "Maki-zushi" and "Chirashi-zushi".
people like it irl
I once watched a mukbanger eat 10,000 calories of dense, decadent, vibrantly colored, americanized sushi
Now im wondering what that video would look like if it was old world sushi instead. That table would be a lot more full, and there would be a much worse smell
That would be a mukbang I would be very interested in watching haha
Bait!
I watched this video from a Hamazushi 😂
Im gonna try to help you get that RUclips money, so you can add a sushi tasting portion to the start of videos :D
California rolls... These days it's so tough to find sushi sets without avocado. It's like California polluted the sushi world.
Come to Northern Japan! You still have to do some serious searching to find avocado sushi up here!
Where I live you can get ones with & without. Theirs heaps of varieties of sushi here.
trying everything to not mention china on the origin lol, typical weeb
Sorry what ?? BLOWFISH skin or seaweed?? Meaning at some point in time blowfish skin was just a totally attainable thing to have on hand for average sushi chefs?
People still eat pufferfish skin today, and it wasn't as expensive and rare as it was in the past.
….I’m sorry….but this was THE most nausea-inducing vid I have EVER seen…(For those of us who can barely tolerate very well-cooked, non-fishy fish, hearing about : raw, fermented carp” …”the taste & texture of cheese” 🤢….was, Oh, Lordy, lordy ….)
I'm sure it's an acquired taste! 😂
I hope that you shall soon rool in that money bruv!
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my dock is fatter then a susi rol
3 things I associate with Japan...samurai ,sushi and the best rice crispies of 1948.