{"id":2549,"date":"2016-02-29T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:03:06","slug":"kobe-kounanzuke-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/kobe-kounanzuke-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Kounan Muko-no-Sato Kounanzuke Pickles Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love pickles; coffee<\/a> and tea might top my list of favorite food and drinks but pickles don’t get any less love from me. Pickles can give insights into how locals once lived. Specifically, how they have developed or adapted to preserve or process their foods, with what they have in abundance and\/or according to their needs. So you can imagine my delight when I chanced upon a museum that offered me more insight into not just pickles, but sake as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In Kobe, my region, kounanzuke (\u7532\u5357\u6f2c) would be the representative pickles. We might already have read about nadagogou sake (\u7058\u4e94\u90f7\u9152), which is another must-try original; and kounanzuke is no random stranger to nada sake because \u2013 hold your breath \u2013 kounanzuke are pickled by the lees left from nada sake\u2019s production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kounanzuke, more commonly known as narazuke (\u5948\u826f\u6f2c\u3051)<\/a> outside of the Nada area of Kobe, is believed to have originated from Nara around 700 AD. The name narazuke, which has been found on records from as early as the 15th century, has become a general term to describe foods pickled with salt and sakekasu (\u9152\u7c95; lees from sake production) rather than pickles from Nara, per se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Kobe Kounan Muko-no-Sato Kounanzuke Museum (\u795e\u6238\u7532\u5357\u6b66\u5eab\u306e\u90f7\u7532\u5357\u6f2c\u8cc7\u6599\u9928) was where I stumbled across when searching for original Kounanzuke to taste. Operated by Takashima Alcohol & Foods Company (literal translation of \u9ad8\u5d8b\u9152\u985e\u98df\u54c1\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e; established in 1870), the museum offers a quick but useful introduction to Nadagogou\u2019s sake-making history as well as the company\u2019s Kounanzuke tradition, which method has remained unchanged since its first production over a hundred years ago in 1904.<\/p>\n\n\n\n