Natto, miso, tofu, fried tofu, material, such as vegetables, natto sawing is often used natto.
It is "Kigo" Winter in haiku.
It has been described in the literature of various as how to eat a general natto in the Edo period, it has been eaten in Japan and other places Ed.
To protect public morals history book Sada end of the Edo period, the situation at the time is described.
"Sell it by overnight to room boiled soybeans sell natto. One day is eaten this over the soy sauce and boiled. Juice to over sell this only winter, in the summer in recent years in the past"
In Edo, "natto selling" walked sell food natto juice. In order to "natto that crush", "greens", "tofu" is to set it is like instant miso soup, "beating natto" became natto juice just pour hot water.
In addition, it is a summary, but because you can easily run out of vegetables in the cold "region, supplemented by natto. Either they boiled it to. Juice summer sell this, to eat over the soy sauce in Edo. In Kyoto hill, just homemade , it is described with "too strange things store selling.
It is the everyday things enough to be read many walk called "Motto ~Ona and become" each morning in the poem "This natto sell", it is up to breakfast there were many.
Natto sold comes with dawn that are caused to lie-in corbicula and natto
(Buson is good) writer Yosa Buson of the mid-Edo Period
Natto juice Ageya of room and morning frost of (Ya up)
It has read the phrase, it is an example illustrating how the natto whether had eaten in the Edo period.
I was up on the table in general than natto rice in Edo
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Regionality
In the Kinki region natto itself has not been eating much, if there are not even known in many cases.
Are widely known Iwate Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture in the Tohoku region, in such as Akita, Yamagata, Shinjo-Shonai town, Iwate Judah town Yamagata (currently west my city), Akita as regional specialties in Yuzawa known. The addition of New Year rice cake becomes natto juice sewing, I found an example to make natto Zoni in Fukuoka and Kumamoto part of Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture.
After you make the Iwate Prefecture natto miso soup, to be added as ingredients natto further.
I put juice in what was a paste Yamagata Prefecture natto.
In addition, it has become a regional cuisine there is a custom of eating natto soup instead of rice porridge with seven herbs on January 7, it is a lot of juice tool
Currently, a major as how to eat natto is a natto rice, often made in the prone areas such as natto consumption Ibaraki and Tokyo, is lower than before.
