Eel restaurant - Unagiya

Japanese: ウナギ屋 - うなぎや
Eel restaurant - Unagiya

…Today, it is used exclusively by sushi restaurants to show off the freshness of the nigiri sushi. However, the “Butsurui Shoko” (1775) states that “In Edo, eels from the Asakusa River and Fukagawa area are praised as Edomae, and those from other places are called Tabi Unagi,” and the “Edo Kaimono Hitotsu Annai” (1824) shows that all the eel restaurants are calling their products Edomae or Edo meibutsu, while most sushi restaurants call their products Gozen. Incidentally, nigiri sushi was first sold by Yohei Sushi in Ryogoku, Edo, around the Bunsei era (1818-30), and as its popularity grew, sushi restaurants began to call it Edomae, replacing the eel restaurants. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Unagi-ya" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現在では握りずしの種の鮮度を誇示する語として,もっぱらすし屋がこれを用いている。しかし,《物類称呼》(1775)には〈江戸にては,浅草川,深川辺の産を江戸前とよびて賞す,他所より出すを旅うなぎと云〉とあり,《江戸買物独案内》(1824)を見ると,江戸前,江戸名物などととなえているのはすべてウナギ屋で,すし屋はほとんどが御膳と称している。ちなみに,握りずしは文政年間(1818‐30)ころ江戸両国の与兵衛ずしが売り始めたもので,その人気が高まるにつれ,ウナギ屋にとってかわってすし屋が江戸前を称するようになったものである。…

※「ウナギ屋」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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