Silkworm

Japanese: きぬかつぎ

...The practice of adding zoni to zoni is also seen in the "Hocho Kikkisho," which is said to have been written in the Muromachi period, and although its origin is unknown, it is thought to be a very old custom. Today, kinukai is often called "kinukatsugi," a corrupted form of the word. Young potatoes such as Ishikawa Wase are boiled with their black skins on and eaten with salt or other seasonings....

From [Roasted Sweet Potato]

...In Edo at the end of the Edo period, the Kiyu Shoran recorded that "there were two or three places selling roasted sweet potatoes in every town," and the situation was the same in Kyoto and Osaka.
[Roasted sweet potato shop]
Depending on the season, roasted sweet potato vendors sold steamed sweet potatoes, and in the sweet potato off-season, they also sold boiled taro called "kinukatsugi." It is unclear when they first came into existence, but Shin Ui-han, who came to Japan as a member of a Korean mission in 1719, wrote in his book Kaiyuroku that roasted sweet potatoes were sold at a roadside stall in Hinooka, Kyoto.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "kinukatsugi" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…雑煮に入れることは室町期成立とされる《庖丁聞書》にも見え，その発祥は不明だが，かなり古くからのならわしであろうと思われる。衣被は，今はなまって〈きぬかつぎ〉と呼ぶことが多い。石川早生などの子いもを黒い皮をつけたままゆで，塩などをつけて食べる。…

【焼芋】より

…幕末期の江戸では，《嬉遊笑覧》が〈焼芋売る処，何れの町にても二，三ヶ所あらぬ処はなし〉と記しており，京坂でも事情は同じであった。
［焼芋屋］
　焼芋屋は季節によって蒸芋を売ったり，サツマイモの端境期には〈きぬかつぎ〉と呼ぶサトイモのゆでたものなども売った。いつごろからあったかは不明だが，1719年朝鮮の使節団の一員として来日した申維翰がその著《海游録》に，京都の日岡（ひのおか）で路傍の露店で焼芋を売っていたことを書いている。…

※「きぬかつぎ」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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