GASA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Meiji Restoration, Tsukiji
25 Mar 2017
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Western food and the making of the japanese nation-state: Influence of french cuisine; menu = 8 dishes. Form and taste of food: eating utensils and etiquette; taste of butter, beef, and wine. Western food/nutritional knowledge = important b/c consumption of western food became a trend. 3 stages in development of nutrition in japan: meiji e(cid:373)pe(cid:396)o(cid:396)(cid:859)s diet = japa(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al sy(cid:373)(cid:271)ol, sh gun = military regent/dictator appointed by emperor; acts as de facto ruler of the country. Implementation of modern science in japan exposed connections between power, welfare and knowledge: steps in importation of western nutritional knowledge in japan: Establishment of tokyo hygienic laboratory in 1880s importance of science and technology: rice riot (1918) inflation of rice price, prompted issue of nutrition and food supply, saeki tadasu = founder of japanese dietetics. World tiding: connecting to asian migration histories to north america: head-tax and exclusion acts (excluding asians from emigrating into the american country); komagatu maru (japanese-owned ships)
