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 EPISODE 05
My dad’s happiness
PREVIOUS EPISODE
HIMENO MOVED TO HER MOTHER’S HOMETOWN TAJIMI BECAUSE OF HIMENO’S
FATHER’S WORK. ON THE FIRST DAY AT A NEW SCHOOL, HIMENO WAS TAKEN TO THE
TOGEI-BU, POTTERY CLUB, BY HER CLASSMATE MIKA. HIMENO WAS AMAZED TO
LEARN THAT HER MOTHER WAS A FAMOUS POTTER. TO LEARN ABOUT TOGEI AND HER
MOTHER’S LEGACY, SHE DECIDED TO JOIN THE TOGEI-BU.
 S…

SORRY…

MY…
BOWL…
 THAT’S WHY AND
I’M GOING TO
GIVE HIM MY
HANDMADE
BOWL.

EH?
THAT’S ARE
A YOU
YOU VERY MAKING
WELL. COULD NICE IT?
BUY IDEA.
IT.

YES.
WAIT… SINCE THAT IS
I WAS DAD’S
IN FAVORITE
JUNIOR A BOWL.
HE HAS
HAD IT HIGH. LONG HE’S BEEN
FOR AS TIME? USING IT
FOR A LONG
LONG AS TIME.
I CAN
REMEMBER…

HA HA HA

3
 IT WAS SINCE I JOINED
YES. FOR THE TOGEI-BU,
LET’S OCHAZUKE? A BOWL WHAT
KIND OF I HAVE WANTED
LOOK AT OF RICE
WITH BOWL TO MAKE A
THE SIMILAR ONE.
GREEN WAS
BROKEN
TEA… THAT?
PIECES.

EH?
HIS
BOWL?
IT’S
DANGEROUS.
I THREW
IT AWAY.

I GUESS
YOU
MUST’VE
LIKED IT
VERY
MUCH.

4
 DON’T
NO… YOU YA!
HAVE CHEER
A
PICTURE UP!
OF
IT?

I’M WELL
I
SURE SUPPOSED
I’LL FIND IT
A NICE WOULD
ONE BREAK
SOON. SOMEDAY.

DON’T
WORRY.
I
WILL
HELP
YOU.

5
 UMM…
IT’S
WARPED LIKE
TO THE THIS?
LEFT.
HER
DRAWING
HAS
TO DO
WITH
IT.

IT’S
IMPOSSIBLE
LET’S TO
LOOK FOR REMEMBER
AND BOWLS IN THE
FIND THE CLUB DETAILS EVEN
SIMILAR ROOM. THOUGH
ONES. I SAW IT
EVERY DAY.

6
 YOUR THIS
FATHER COLOR WAS
MUST LIKE
THINGS THAT
CLOSE TO
ARE THIS ONE.
QUIET AND
SIMPLE. THE
SHAPE
LOOKED
LIKE
THIS.

THAT
MEANS,
ANYWAY, THIS IS
LET’S THE
TRY TO PERFECT
MAKE IT. CLAY.

THIS
AMOUNT
OF CLAY IS
ENOUGH TO
MAKE FOR
YOUR FATHER’S.

WELL.
THE
SIZE
IS…

7
OUCH

……
THAT WAS
DELICIOUS.

UM…

NOTHING.

8
 AND
IT NEEDS
A LITTLE MORE
DEPTH BECAUSE
HE POURS A LOT I MY
OF GREEN TEA THINK!
DAD’S
OVER RICE
THE RICE. BOWL
HAS TO
BE
THICKER.

IS IT
IF THE
OKAY THAT IT
RICE
WILL BE
BOWL
A LITTLE
NEEDS
HEAVY WHEN
DEPTH
HE HAS
AND
OCHAZUKE?
THICKNESS,

IN THAT
IT’S A BIT CASE,
AH, YOU
DIFFERENT THAT’S CAN PUT
FROM THE A HANDLES
OLD BOWL, GREAT ON IT!
IDEA!
RIGHT?

9
 YES.

IT NEED
NOT BE
THE SAME
AS THE
OLD ONE.
I GUESS
YOU
SHOULD
MAKE A
PERFECT
RICE BOWL
FOR HIM.

IT’S YOU’RE
ALL RIGHT! FINE IF RIGHT.
I WILL IT’S
MAKE ONE DIFFERENT.
FOR HIM,
TOO.

HOW
COME!?

LET’S ALL
MAKE
BOWLS AND SO
HAVE AN WHAT?
OCHAZUKE
PARTY! OCHAZUKE!
 FOR
OCHAZUKE…

WOW!
THESE HERE HIMENO–SAN,
PICKLED YOU WOULD YOU
PLUMS LOOK ARE. LIKE SOME
VERY PICKLED PLUMS
EXPENSIVE. FOR HIS
OCHAZUKE?

AND…

11
 WHILE
YOUR BOWL
I PICKED A IS BEING
I WANT BOWL THAT’S MADE,
GOOD FOR HIMENO, I
TO DO OCHAZUKE. WANT TO
THAT TRY SOME
THINGS.
TOO!

AOKI-SAN
GAVE IT EH?
TO ME.

12
 AND
SHE SOME
TOLD ME PICKLED FOR
YOU CAN PLUMS. OCHAZUKE. WHY?
USE IT
UNTIL YOU’LL
FIND A
BETTER I
ONE. SEE.

I FEEL
LIKE
WELL… IT’S TOO
GOOD
FOR ME.

13
 CAN I
POUR
THE TEA?
CAN I?

HE WAS
VERY
PLEASED HA-HA. HA-
WITH IT. HA-HA-HA-
THANK YOU HA-HA.
VERY MUCH. CAN I
HAVE
SOME,
PLEASE?

I’M
GLAD.
WHAT’S
THIS?

AM I
SO
LUCKY?

I WANT
SOME!
RICE!
RICE!

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 YES. I THOUGHT
THEY PICKLED
REALLY PLUMS WERE
SUITED WELL-MATCHED
THE BOWL. TO THE
COLOR OF
THE BOWL.

IT WAS
PERFECT.

HOW ABOUT
WELL. MAKING A
BOWL IN
THIS COLOR
TO MATCH
SALMON
OCHAZUKE?

I WANT TO
MAKE A
OH. PERFECT
YOU BOWL FOR
HAVE TO SALMON
WORK OCHAZUKE.
VERY
HARD.
 I’M
LOOK! IN A
LOOK!
EVERYONE! HAPPY
MOOO
OOD!

A VERY
CUTE
I OCHAZUKE
BOUGHT SET!!
IT!

I’LL
MAKE
HIM A
REALLY HIMENO’S
NICE FATHER
BOWL. IS AN
OCHAZUKE
LOVER!

16
 WHAT’S
OCHAZUKE! THIS?
EH!?
REALLY? OCHAZUKE
IS WHAT
YOU LIVE
FOR.

HIMENO

AH… WHAT
DO I DID YOU
TELL HER?,
REALLY
HAVE TO
EAT THIS?

17
 OKAY…
I’LL
EAT IT.

HOW
NARUSE- ABOUT
SAN? SOME, HIMENO!
TOKO-
SENPAI!

THANK
YOU
FOR
WAITING. HEY!
NARUSE-
SAN’S
GONE!

OH,
NAO-
CHAN.

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19
 I HOPE
YOUR
FATHER

I
HOPE
SO.
WILL
LIE IT.
 I HAVE
SOME
GRILLED
SALMON.

FOR
OCHAZUKE?
YEAH!
 DID YOU
THIS…
THAT’S MAKE
FOR Y… IT?
OCHAZUKE. YES.

HERE
YOU
ARE.
 DON’T
…… STARE
AT ME…
 THAT WAS
DELICIOUS.

YOU CAN I HE-HE-HE.

MUST HAVE
BE ANOTHER
FULL? ONE?
……

I WANT TO
HAVE SOME HIMENO
MORE EVEN
THOUGH I’M
FULL.
 Ochazuke
This should be Chazuke in a pottery rice bowl.

Japanese comfort food Bowls and ochazuke

There are many dishes regarded as a comfort food in We enjoy meals not only by flavor but also with our eyes.
Japan. “Ochazuke” is one of them and a typical one. We enjoy the taste and also the elegance of bowls, beau-
“Ochazuke” is a simple food; it is a bowl of rice topped tiful food presentation, tableware, harmony with food
with pickled plums, dried salmon or seaweed boiled in ingredients, and the sense of season.
soy sauce with green tea or soup stock poured over it. At the annual Tajimi City Ceramic Festival, in 2014, an
There are various kinds of toppings and as many varia- exhibition on the theme of ochazuke and Mino ware was
tions as there are people with unique tastes. It is a simple held. “A meet to eat ochazuke” took place.
dish but can still be a high cuisine with a good quality
ingredients, time and effort to prepare it. You may find
that there is a lot more to this dish than you would think. Various kinds of ochazuke
In “Yakunara Mug Cup Mo”, Mika Kukuri comes up
The history of “Ochazuke” with “ochazuke with taiyaki”.
“Taiyaki” is a mixture of flour, sugar, water and a kind of
Since when has “ochazuke” been a part of Japanese cui- azuki bean jam inside. It is baked on a fish-shaped iron
sine? plate. It has been a familiar snack for a long time.
In an anecdote of the Taika Reform (the Asuka period, Sweet ochazuke as a meal is unheard of. A famous Jap-
646 AD), people who were ordered to assassinate Soga- anese novelist loved a sweet bean jam bun ochazuke, so
noiruka went to the Imperial Court after swallowing a Mika’s idea is not exactly original.
bowl of rice with water poured over it. It has been a cus-
tom for a long time to eat a bowl of rice with water or hot
water poured over it.
In the Heian period (794-1185), it was written about in a
tanka, a 31-syllable Japanese poem, and became estab-
lished as a simple meal. Ochazuke, in those days, was
boiled rice with hot water or cold water poured over it.
It was in the Edo period (1603-1868) that ordinary people
started eating boiled rice with “green tea” poured over
it. With the popularization of green tea and roasted tea
among ordinary people, “ochazuke” spread. By the end
of the Edo period ochazuke had come to stay, and busy
workers ate it to rush through mealtimes. A store special-
izing in ochazuke was set up. It became a high-class dish
and changed in various ways.
An instant “ochazuke” was developed and was in stores
in 1952. (“Ochazukenori” by Nagatanien)

INTRODUCTION
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Published: November 30, 2012

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