"Okusa Family Cookbook" - Okusa Family Cookbook

… The oldest cookbooks that exist today are the Chujiruiki (Cooking Records) or Sezokuritsuyoshu (Collection of Worldly Principles), which record the court customs of meals and dining etiquette. Both are thought to have been written in the late Kamakura period, but their full details are unknown. In the Muromachi period, cookbooks that record cooking techniques, such as the Shijo-ryu Cooking Book, the Buke Chomi Kojitsu (Family Seasonings) and the Knife Records, as well as the Okusa-ke Cooking Book and the Okusa-dono Yori Soden No Kikigaki, appeared in connection with the honzen-style cuisine served to shoguns and other guests, with the establishment of the Shijo-ryu, Okusa-ryu and Shinshi-ryu schools of kitchen knives. These were passed down as historical records and transmission books, and all were copies, but in the early modern period cookbooks were printed, and in 1643 (Kan'ei 20), the Cooking Story was published, marking a new era in cookbooks. …

*Some of the terminology used in the "Okusa Family Cookbook" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　現存する最も古い料理書は，食膳や食事作法の有職故実について記した《厨事類記（ちゆうじるいき）》もしくは《世俗立要集（せぞくりつようしゆう）》で，ともに鎌倉末期の成立とみられるが，全貌を知りえない。室町期に入ると，将軍などの御成の際に供される本膳形式の料理との関連で，《四条流庖丁書》《武家調味故実》《庖丁聞書（ききがき）》のほか，《大草家料理書》《大草殿より相伝之聞書》といった料理技術を記した料理書が，四条流，大草流，進士流といった庖丁流派の成立に伴って出現する。これらは故実書，伝書として伝えられ，いずれも写本であったが，近世に入ると料理書が印刷に付せられ，1643年(寛永20)には《料理物語》が刊行されて新たな料理書の歴史が始まる。…

※「《大草家料理書》」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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