Ayu sushi - Ayu sushi

Japanese: アユずし - あゆずし
Ayu sushi - Ayu sushi

…Even today's refined crucian carp sushi can have an unpleasant odor, so it seems reasonable that narezushi is called praha, which means 'smelly fish' in Thai. Also, in volume 31 of the Konjaku Monogatarishu, there is a story about a drunk woman selling sweetfish sushi who vomits into the bucket in which her goods are kept, then hurriedly stirs it up and pretends not to notice, and the author comments that 'sushi ayu is as disgusting as the original', meaning that sweetfish sushi was originally such a disgusting thing. It certainly seems that Japanese narezushi has the same origin as Thai praha, but the only thing that makes the Japanese version different from the others is that it is heavy. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "ayu sushi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…馴れずしは,現在の精製されたフナずしでさえ鼻もちならぬ臭気をもつことがあり,タイ語で〈臭い魚〉の意味のプラハーと呼ばれることももっともと思われる。また,《今昔物語集》巻三十一には酒に酔ったアユずし売りの女が,売物を入れた桶の中にへどを吐き,慌ててそれをかき混ぜて知らん顔をする話があり,〈鮨鮎本ヨリ然様(さよう)ダチタル物〉,つまり,アユずしはもともとそうしたきたないもの,という感想も述べられている。まさに日本の馴れずしも,タイのプラハーなどと同源であることをうかがわせるが,ただ一つ,日本のものが他と異なるのはおもしをかけることである。…

※「アユずし」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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