Traditional Craft Ryori Summer
Japanese food for the summer season
Summer is cool
Traditional crafts as practical tools
Practical enough to enjoy in everyday life,
rather than just with pricey garnished foods
Food
Summer arrangement
Drinking ume-shu from beautiful cut glassware
Kyoto cut glassware artisan
Created by Akira Watanabe
Kiriko
What is cut glassware?
Glass crafting
Japanese name for cut
glassware
Marinated octopus
Crabs painted on glass
and pottery
Rice dishes cooked
in clay pots
Shiso (beefsteak plant)
Umeboshi (pickled plum)
Myoga
Summer lethargy prevention
Grilled unagi (eel)
Eat unagi (eel) for nutrition
during the hot season
Udons are a kind of
Japanese noodle!
Cooling and heaping in a
basket
Japanese confectionery
Kashiwa-mochi
(rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves)
and chimaki
(cake wrapped in bamboo leaves)
Eaten at Boys’ Day at the beginning of May
Meaning of Boys’ Day
Protecting newborn baby boys
Praying for safe growth
Displaying armor (kabuto and yoroi)
“Koi-nobori”
decorative flags
kabuto
Natsu-mikan (Japanese summer orange) flavored youkan
What is youkan?
Casting azuki bean jam into a mold
Sweet treats with agar gelatin
Matcha and youkan
jelly
Candied lemon
Youkan made from tea
Azuki youkan
The beginning of summer
is the shipment time for
tea leaves.
Enjoying ryoku-cha
(green tea)
Matcha is a type of green tea
in powdered form
Add hot water, stir, and drink
Also used as an ingredient
in cooking and snacks
Dry confectionery
Low-moisture dried
Japanese sweets
Using shape and color to
illustrate the start of summer
Iris Stream Shell
Iris
