Category: Food
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Hyakunin Isshu Crackers, Redux!
In Japan, gift-giving (omiyagé お土産) among friends and relatives is a common tradition, and recently a friend returned from Japan and gave us some special crackers (senbei) featuring poems from the Hyakunin Isshu. The crackers come in different flavors, and the wrapper each has a random poem. I got a curry-flavored one: The first two…
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A Good Harvest: Poem Number 1
This is another iconic poem about Autumn and also happens to be the first poem in the Hyakunin Isshu: Japanese Romanization Translation 秋の田の Aki no ta no In the autumn fields かりほの庵の Kariho no io no the hut, the temporary hut, 苫のあらみ Toma no arami its thatch is rough わが衣出は Waga koromo de wa and…
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Hyakunin Isshu crackers!
Edit: the pictures in his post are now lost unfortunately. There is a more up to date post here though if you would still like to read. My wife often gets sembei crackers from her family in Japan in the mail, and especially a package of these crackers in particular: These are Hyakunin Isshu themed…
The Hyakunin Isshu 