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Read more about the Shoki straw man festival of Niigata here: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/shoki-phallus-festival-niigata/

@Simpleton Hmmm, hard to say, since tempura was brought in by the Portuguese to Nagasaki in the 16th century, and without a steady supply of imported wine (near impossible during the sakoku policy) I can't see a recipe like that making its way all the way up to Yamagata. The impression I got...

@Simpleton happens to the best of us, don't worry about it!

@Simpleton I'm not sure I understand you? The manga doesn't mix the two up? Darwin sent Bird a copy of Transactions, it never says that he wrote it.

@Simpleton I'm very skeptical of an Italian recipe coming over. If it was Dutch or German, perhaps, but there wasn't a huge Italian presence in Japan before the turn of the century. Especially in Yamagata, where Isabella Bird specifically mentioned in her book that pretty much all the "foreign"...

@Simpleton The candy in question was 帯輪, so not an honorific o-. The obi is like the kimono obi sash and wa is circle/ring. It could be a very local sweet, or just very old so there are no digitized records.

@Simpleton They were two separate people. Darwin was a contemporary acquaintance of Miss Bird's, but he did not ever visit Japan. Charles Dallas Esq. was the author of the paper "Notes Collected in the Okitama Ken" that was published in the journal Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan...

@Simpleton, I thought about that, but dismissed it because tamagozake is always done with sake, not wine, and the text specifically said *wine*. Plus, it's mostly reserved for actual illnesses like colds/flus (egg protein keeps person nourished, sake keeps hydrated-ish and the alcohol improves...

Keep in mind that the story is set in 1878. Origin of Species was only published in 1859 and didn't become truly central to modern evolutionary theory until the 1930s. In fact, from about the 1880s to 1930s there was a "eclipse of Darwinism" when most biologists believed in natural selection or...

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