Kiritanpo

Japanese: きりたんぽ
Kiritanpo

A local dish from Akita Prefecture. Non-glutinous rice is cooked, pounded in a mortar, spread around thin bamboo sticks, and grilled over charcoal. In the Edo period, when hunters and woodcutters would go into the mountains for several days, they would grill the surface of the rice balls to make them yakimusubi (grilled rice balls) so that their portable lunches would last longer. In the late Edo period, the feudal lord of the time was coming to Hanawa near Odate on a patrol, so as a form of entertainment, they would smear rice around a small cedar stick, cut off one end of the stick, sharpen the other end, and grill it by sticking it into the ashes of a hearth. The feudal lord praised the taste and asked what it was called, but it was an original creation and had no name. Someone quickly answered, "kiritanpo," because it resembled the shape of a short-tipped spear with one end cut off. It is said that the name came into use from then on. Originally, it was not added to shottsuru nabe (hot pot), but now it is used as an ingredient in this famous hot pot dish. There are many different ways to cook kiritanpo, and it is now mass-produced, but it was a restaurant in Noshiro in the early Showa period that first began selling it as a product.

[Tetsunosuke Tada]

[Reference] | Local cuisine
Kiritanpo
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Kiritanpo

Kiritanpo hotpot
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Kiritanpo hotpot


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

秋田県の郷土料理。粳(うるち)米を炊いてすり鉢に入れて搗(つ)きつぶし、細竹の回りに塗り付けて炭火で焼いたもの。江戸時代に猟師や木こりなどが数日山に入るとき、携帯弁当の日もちをよくするために握り飯の表面を焼いて焼きむすびとした。江戸の後期に大館(おおだて)の近くの花輪に、時の藩主が巡視にくるというので、接待の料理に、焼きむすびの変形として杉の小さい棒の周囲に飯を塗り付け、棒の一端は切り落とし、他の一端をとがらして、いろりの灰に突き立てて焼いて献上した。藩主はこの味を賞賛して名称を尋ねたが、創作品で名前がない。ある者が当意即妙に「きりたんぽ」と答えた。短穂の槍(やり)の一端を切り落とした形に似ているからである。それからこの名称がそのまま用いられるようになったという。初めはしょっつる鍋(なべ)に入れるものではなかったが、現在はこの名物鍋料理の一要素として用いられている。きりたんぽの料理はいろいろあり、いまは大量生産も行われているが、これを一つの商品として売り始めたのは昭和の初期、能代(のしろ)の一料理店である。

[多田鉄之助]

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きりたんぽ
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きりたんぽ

きりたんぽ鍋
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きりたんぽ鍋


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