Uji tofu - Uji tofu

Japanese: 宇治豆腐 - うじどうふ
Uji tofu - Uji tofu

...From the Northern and Southern Courts to the Muromachi period, articles about tofu, mainly in diaries, rapidly increased, and in the late Muromachi period, the "Seventy-first Artisan Poetry Contest," a female tofu seller wearing a white headband is depicted with the words, "Come on, tofu, I have come up from Nara." The poem also includes the names of Nara tofu and Uji tofu, showing that Nara and Uji were tofu-producing areas at the time, and that tofu sellers traveled from these two places to Kyoto. Soon, tofu production began to flourish in Kyoto, a major consumer area with good water, and tofu came to be counted as one of Kyoto's specialties. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Uji tofu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…南北朝から室町期に入ると,豆腐の記事は日記類を中心にして急増し,室町後期の《七十一番職人歌合》には白い鉢巻をした女の豆腐売が描かれ,〈とうふ召せ,奈良よりのぼりて候〉と書かれている。歌のほうには奈良豆腐,宇治豆腐の名が見え,当時奈良や宇治が豆腐どころであったこと,この両地から京都にまで豆腐売が通っていたことがわかる。やがて大消費地であり,水のよい京都でも盛んにつくられるようになり,豆腐は京都名物の一つに数えられるようになった。…

※「宇治豆腐」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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