Okitsu Sea Bream - Okitsudai

Japanese: 興津鯛 - おきつだい
Okitsu Sea Bream - Okitsudai
<br /> Sweetfish. Especially salted and dried tilefish. Sweetfish is opened with the scales still attached, salted and dried. A specialty of Okitsu, Shizuoka. ◇During the Keicho era (1596-1615), a man named Hirose Mataemon made dried sweetfish and presented it to Tokugawa Ieyasu from Okitsu Kawachi no Kami, who was so pleased with it that it was given the name "Okitsu Tai". There is also a theory that it was named after Okitsu no Tsubone, a lady-in-waiting who presented it.

Source: Kodansha Dictionary of Japanese Regional Cuisine Information

Japanese:

甘鯛。特にその塩干し。甘鯛をうろこをつけたまま開き、塩をして干したもの。静岡・興津の特産品。◇慶長年間(1596~1615)に、広瀬又右衛門という人が甘鯛の干物を作り、興津河内守より徳川家康に献上したところたいへん喜ばれ、「興津鯛」の名を得たという伝承がある。また、奥女中の興津局(おきつのつぼね)が献上したことから、彼女の名をとったという説もある。

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