Inari wants to live in peace

In the Meiji era, color television was successfully developed.

And soon mass production began, and it was first installed in our living room in Japan.

That was one summer night.

When I was playing with my family wolf in the living room while feeling the cool wind with my windows as a screen, I heard a word that attracted interest from a TV that was somehow left lit.

That's why I react to it as much as I can.

"Didn't you just say eel?"

Turn your gaze to the TV screen, Project F - Challengers - Immediately after!The telop was displayed as big.

Seeing it, I hurriedly pull out today's newspaper.And I carefully checked the program column on the back.

Hee, it's the first time in the series.

While I look through the program, Project F continues.

But anyway, eels are my favorite, so I'll go to the kitchen and get some barley tea later.

As you remove the prepared barley tea from the refrigerator, you can hear the television host behind you.

"Today, the most famous seafood in Japan.What do you imagine?

Katsuo? Sanma? Aji? Octopus? The correct answer is eel. "

Then take your favorite MyCop with you, go back to the living room table, and lower your hips to the cushion.

While pouring barley tea into a cup, I listen to the television.

"It is a nutrient-rich eel that is cheap and available, but there was a long and painful journey to reach full farming and mass production."

I thought, if I remember correctly, eels were cultivated even in the 2000s.

I heard that it can't be done from scratch if I use the medicine, but it will cost too much to produce.

As a result, it became an endangered species only by catching and growing juvenile fish, but it seems that this Japan is different.

The flow of mass production from complete cultivation has recently been established.

And the nutrient-rich eel became the most famous seafood in Japan, to the extent that it was said to be an ally of the common people.

I've been banging on the news all day long enough to think it was Stema, but I couldn't help but say it was amazing.

I remember very well because I was awarded the Japanese Medal as a matter of course.

Here comes the title logo of Project F - Challengers - and the opening song, which was streamed a short while ago.

When it's over, it dims and the scene switches.

A large car with an IHK logo passes through the gate of an eel farm guarded by security guards.

The car that was parked in the parking lot was taken off by the interviewers into the facility and walked down the hallway to the president's office decorated with a Japanese medal.

A while ago, an older man, whom I had honored, sat down on a sofa that looked luxurious, but he stood up and shook hands with a smiling smile from the host before the conversation began.

"The plan for the complete cultivation of eels actually started over 300 years ago."

As I look at the TV screen, it feels as if it were true, but the old man who is interviewed is very happy to talk about whether the dream has come true.

The glass case installed in the private room is decorated with various medals besides the prizes I have awarded, which is exactly the person of the time.

"A book left by Hojo Tsuyasu, who was a great name in the Kanto region during the Sengoku period, to future generations.That's where it all begins. "

Speaking of which, I recalled that I met Mr. Hojo during the Sengoku period.Speaking of which, I missed the old days while watching TV.

"At the banquet seat, Inari God made his own kayaki eel.

I taught them how to cook, and I behaved like everyone else. "

It was certainly more than 300 years ago that Hojo-san made eel dishes in his territory.

Strangely enough, I can still remember clearly.

Have you grown a little since then?

The appearance and contents didn't seem to change, but the breakup with a close friend made me look like my grandmother.

Thanks to me, I was able to overcome my farewell several times.

And while I was looking back at the past, the old man in the farming industry kept on explaining.

"Everyone at the banquet has a record of being very fond of eel dishes."

So the screen switched and a picture scroll was shown that I was acting like a rabbit cook to visitors.

The paint has been peeling and discoloring for so long.

It doesn't matter, but there was actually no such scene.

I was satisfied when I finished eating and left my seat at once.

All I had to do was have each cook make a nod and make a fuss at the banquet on their own.

"When I think about it, I don't have the idea of protecting and culturing it.

Because Sengoku-era eels were so familiar that they could be seen anywhere in the river or the sea. "

Indeed, when I first caught the eel, quite a few were swimming.

Even now, regulations continue, but they are less than they used to be, but far from extinct.

Probably more than History.

While I was thinking about it, the farmer's representative continued to explain with enthusiasm.

"I started full eel farming because of restrictions on fishing and distribution.

But that's not all.Above all, it was because of God Inari's strong desire. "

Was I?and while tilting his neck, wait until he leans away from the color TV.

"It is recorded that Inari God said he wanted to eat as much eel as he liked even in the distant future if it came true."

Remembering what I said, I slammed my hands.

It was when I talked about the concept of environmental protection as an excuse for suffering as the reason why I jumped into the river to catch eels.

But thanks to my softness, more than 300 years later, I finally realized a magnificent plan.

I wouldn't have imagined it then.

Now that the interview is over, I'll refill the barley tea as well.

The screen switched in the dark, and now a restaurant in Tokyo was projected.

I've seen the footage and I've been to the restaurant for over 300 years.

Even if the name of the shop is hidden in a mosaic, the signage of the Ten Years Old Roku is clearly displayed.

If I lived in Tokyo, it was discovery that everyone knew about the famous shop.

The reporter then stepped in front of the television camera and started explaining with a little nervousness.

"This shop operated at the foot of Mt. Inari, where the original Inari god lived.

But at the same time as I opened the shogunate, I split the curtain and moved to Edo. "

The description of the establishment was also written in the store, so I know it well.

It is one of the shops opened by the backyard who once handed over the prototype egg griller and the orphans who were his apprentices.

The shogunate held him as an exclusive cook, but several people turned him down and decided to start the catering business in Edo due to strong hopes.

It has been in business for more than 300 years, replacing, warming, or rebuilding curtains many times.

"There are many restaurants that name their ancestors in eel cuisine ─ ─"

The reporter keeps explaining as he walks around the shop.

They said they had permission to interview, and it was a Wednesday day off, but it wasn't locked.

And there was nobody else inside.

A TV camera enters a well-cleaned and spacious shop and shoots.

"Look! It's decorated with an egg griller!Besides, the shop is full of national treasures! "

The egg griller I gave you once was damaged everywhere, but it was decorated in glass case.

In addition, a variety of other cookware prototypes are arranged neatly in chronological order.

TV reporters enthusiastically talk about the trajectory that artisans from later generations have improved and spread throughout Japan.

I look at it and murmur remembering what happened in the past.

That said, I gave all the prototype cookware to the back of the house when I moved to Edo.

Technologies become more sophisticated with the month and day.And the improved products are increasingly available.

I am a regular user of teacups and teacups, but I still think it is okay to use something new like cooking utensils.

Even after moving into the sanctuary's woods, new and improved products were increasingly sent from all over the country.

There are circumstances like this, and antiques and new items from the Edo Shogunate are pushed into the Masakura courtyard or put out for the Inari Festival.

Further, the reporter was talking excitedly, so the owner of the penetrating store was standing behind the counter, but you were completely through.

"All these cookware were devised and supervised by Inari God!

It's rough compared to modern times, but it was used as a foundation at the time! "

It was handcrafted to imitate the appearance, so it can't be helped if it is rough.

But there was nothing wrong with using it as a foundation for making improvements.

The rapporteur's enthusiastic story was cut in the middle of the show.

Afterwards, the explanation of the owner of the back house, which made the first eel kamayaki in Japan, will be replaced.

"But I don't know if the personal items I used in the past would become national treasures or important cultural properties."

Perhaps even chipped baths and sharp knives are permanently preserved as cultural property.

When I thought about it, it turned unexpectedly into an unspeakable expression like a Tibetan snail.