Sushi

Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of rice that formed along a side dish (neta) of seafood, meat, raw or cooked vegetables. Sushi rice has a soft taste sour because seasoned mixture of rice vinegar, salt, & sugar.

History of Sushi
It is said that the habit of preserving fish with rice and vinegar comes from mountainous regions in Southeast Asia.
The science behind the fermentation of fish packed in rice is that the vinegar produced from fermenting rice elaborate amino acids from fish meat. The result is one of the five basic tastes, called umami in Japanese.
In ancient times, Japanese people may be strong to eat because sushi is always served in large portions. Sushi as much as 1's (1 serving) equivalent to 9's (9 servings) sushi today, or roughly equal to 18 clod of sushi (360 grams). One serving sushi ancients called neta has ikkanzushi consisting of 9 or more types of seafood.

Tag : Culinary

Taiko

The word taiko (太 鼓) means "big drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is used to refer to various types of Japanese drum (和 太 鼓, 'Wa-Daiko', "Japanese drum", in Japanese) and to the art form is relatively recent in the form of ensemble drumming (sometimes more special called, "kumi-Daiko" (组 太 鼓).

Nagado-Daiko (长 胴 太 鼓, long-bodied taiko) consists of two pieces of cow skin stretched over a wooden frame (usually carved from one piece of wood, are now often made from the remains of a wooden barrel) and stretched. Head of tsukeshime-Daiko (付 締め 太鼓, often shortened to, "shime-Daiko" or "shime" only) spread over iron rings and clamped around a smaller body. Tsukeshime-Daiko rope is pulled up tight before use each time. Okedo-Daiko (桶 胴 太 鼓, taiko-bodied barrel-shaped, often shortened to "okedo" or "okay") can be mounted on a stand and played like a taiko other, but usually hung across the shoulder so the drummer can walk and also play it. Taiko Japanese Other includes uchiwa-Daiko (内 轮 太 鼓, taiko fan), hira-Daiko (平 太 鼓, taiko flat), o-Daiko (大 太 鼓, taiko great), and a series of instruments of percussion others in the ensemble of traditional Japanese noh, Gagaku, and kabuki.

Tag : Cultures

Ninja Secret Weapons

In the ancient Japanese tradition, the ancient Japanese soldiers use a lot of secret weapons.
secret weapon was made of yarn, metals, and other such material.
kinds of weapons are:

1. Kunai
This tool resembles a pointy knife and nails and is often used as the ninja to to stick on the wall when climbing or digging.

Kunai measuring about 10-15 cm, so small enough to carry everywhere and hidden in his clothes of people's eyesight. This tool is known as a standard weapon for the ninja as makibishi and shuriken. Small sized Kunai called Tobikunai (kunai flying) and used as shuriken.

Tag : Swords