tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post111154724280534463..comments2023-05-24T22:53:48.790+09:00Comments on WKD (01) ... World Kigo Database . . . (WKD): Blowfish (fugu)Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-86881575985205884532021-07-25T09:26:30.759+09:002021-07-25T09:26:30.759+09:00Illustration of Armor from the fifth volume of
&qu...<b>Illustration of Armor from the fifth volume of<br />"Rakuyoshu" 落葉集 -(Fugu no Zu 武具之図) </b><br />.<br />It is an elaborate design, and there is a play on words involving the words <br />armor (bugu) and puffer fish (fugu). T<br />.<br />https://washokufood.blogspot.com/2009/08/kurofune-monaka.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-83752674308951405032020-05-16T12:58:24.118+09:002020-05-16T12:58:24.118+09:00Amabie アマビエ with a fugu !
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Amabie and ...<b> Amabie アマビエ with a fugu ! </b><br />.<br />#amabie<br />.<br />Amabie and Epidemics<br />https://kappapedia.blogspot.com/2020/03/amabie-and-epidemics.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-15779867588271040792020-05-14T10:06:25.630+09:002020-05-14T10:06:25.630+09:00Yamanashi 上野原市 Uenohara city 秋山村 Akiyama village
I...<b> Yamanashi 上野原市 Uenohara city 秋山村 Akiyama village</b><br />If there is hayariyamai はやり病 an epidemic in the area, people hang surumeika スルメイカ squid at the entrance. <br />.<br />https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/01/surume-squid-legends.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-24214369720711969832019-06-03T13:22:37.102+09:002019-06-03T13:22:37.102+09:00Enoshima no fugu choochin 江の島ふぐ堤灯 pufferfish lante...<b>Enoshima no fugu choochin 江の島ふぐ堤灯 pufferfish lantern from Enoshima </b><br />fugu chochin <br />Kanagawa<br />.<br />https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/kanagawa-folk-toys.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-54362065051885150832019-03-08T13:39:32.641+09:002019-03-08T13:39:32.641+09:00A legend from Minato ward, Tokyo
dochuu no fugu 土...<b>A legend from Minato ward, Tokyo </b><br />dochuu no fugu 土中の河豚 a Fugu blowfish in the earth<br />On the 17th day of the second lunar month in 1725 during the construction of a new building at Zojo-Ji they found a very large living fugu 河豚 puffer fish in the ground! <br />.<br />https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2018/12/minato-ward-legends.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-57108921085915010612017-10-26T06:18:29.822+09:002017-10-26T06:18:29.822+09:00Kobayashi Issa
鰒汁やせ中にあてる箱根山
fugu shiru ya senaka ...Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />鰒汁やせ中にあてる箱根山<b><br />fugu shiru ya senaka ni ateru hakone yama<br /><br />pufferfish soup--<br />turning my back<br />to Mount Hakone </b><br /><br />Pufferfish soup, a winter season word, was a luxury dish. Here, Issa suggests that he's more interested in his soup than in viewing Mount Hakone--a peak south of Edo (today's Tokyo). In a haiku written a year later (1814), he turns his back to Cape Izu while slurping his soup.<br /><br />David Lanoue<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-40628875033123539502016-10-15T14:36:28.237+09:002016-10-15T14:36:28.237+09:00Kobayashi Issa
ももしきの大宮人や鰒と汁
momoshiki no oomiyabi...Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />ももしきの大宮人や鰒と汁<br />momoshiki no oomiyabito ya fukuto-jiru<br /><br />for a great courtier<br />of the imperial palace...<br />pufferfish soup<br /><br />It's not clear whether Issa is depicting an actual courtier or speaking metaphorically: suggesting that eating the winter delicacy makes one feel like a courtier.<br /><br />David Lanoue<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-25448039310092921172015-04-13T13:54:05.002+09:002015-04-13T13:54:05.002+09:00Ariake fukuchoochin ありあけ福ちょうちん / 有明 福ちょうちん ふぐ提灯
&q...<b>Ariake fukuchoochin ありあけ福ちょうちん / 有明 福ちょうちん ふぐ提灯<br />"lucky lantern" of a puffer fish <br />from Fukuoka<br />.</b>Gabi Greve - Darumapediahttp://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/07/fukuoka-folk-toys.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-3946459435152327092014-07-19T06:05:38.105+09:002014-07-19T06:05:38.105+09:00Kobayashi Issa
誰やらが面にも似たる鰒哉
dare yara ga tsura ni...Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />誰やらが面にも似たる鰒哉<br />dare yara ga tsura ni mo nitaru fukuto kana<br /><br />someone I know<br />has a similar face...<br />pufferfish<br /><br />The person's face is puffy and bloated--not a complimentary portrait!<br />.<br />David Lanoue<br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-32799373747725781952013-09-27T15:28:18.144+09:002013-09-27T15:28:18.144+09:00Kobayashi Issa
京にも子分ありとや鰒と汁
miyako ni mo kobun ar...Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />京にも子分ありとや鰒と汁<br />miyako ni mo kobun ari to ya fukuto-jiru<br /><br /><br />and two more about fukuto<br /><br />across the street<br />a godfather's house --<br />blowfish chowder<br /><br />how much <br />does your boss eat? <br />blowfish chowder <br /><br />even in Kyoto,<br />they say, he has followers --<br />blowfish chowder<br /><br />Read the comment by Chris Drake Gabi Greve - Issahttp://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/translatinghaiku/conversations/topics/4554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-10351897602636357202013-03-13T13:40:08.390+09:002013-03-13T13:40:08.390+09:00fugu nori Daikoku ふぐ乗り大黒 Daikoku on a fugu puffer ...fugu nori Daikoku ふぐ乗り大黒 Daikoku on a fugu puffer fish<br /><br />If you eat a puffer fish, the poison might kill you. (fugu ni ataru.)<br />This is a pun with fuku ni ataru 福に当たる大黒, to be lucky when you meet Daikoku.<br /><br />This doll brings luck to the merchants.<br />This is the only clay doll with this combination.Gabi Grevehttp://darumadollmuseum.blogspot.jp/2006/12/nakano-clay-dolls.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-31436578010064700632012-12-02T06:38:12.745+09:002012-12-02T06:38:12.745+09:00ふぐさしや笹の色増す夜の雨
fugu sashi ya sasa no iro masu yoru ...ふぐさしや笹の色増す夜の雨<br />fugu sashi ya sasa no iro masu yoru no ame<br /><br />blowfish sashimi—<br />bamboo grass deepen their colors<br />in the night rain<br /><br />Murazawa Kafu 村沢夏風<br /><br />Tr. Fay Aoyagi<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-75876115397040218682012-10-18T13:24:13.091+09:002012-10-18T13:24:13.091+09:00presenting itself
to Musashi Plain...
the pufferfi...presenting itself<br />to Musashi Plain...<br />the pufferfish<br /><br />musashi no e makari-idetaru fukuto kana<br />.むさしのへまかり出たる鰒哉<br /><br />by Issa, 1811<br /><br />A fish vendor has brought this ocean catch inland. Issa spells fugu ("tetrodon" or "pufferfish") using the Japanese character for awabi ("abalone").<br /><br />Tr. David Lanoue<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-53404440153618444712010-08-03T15:46:44.050+09:002010-08-03T15:46:44.050+09:00人鬼をいきどほるかよ鰒の顔
hito oni wo ikidooru ka yo fugu no k...人鬼をいきどほるかよ鰒の顔<br />hito oni wo ikidooru ka yo fugu no kao<br /><br />are you mad <br />at the human goblins? <br />face of the pufferfish<br /><br />Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />Issa spells fugu ("tetrodon" or "pufferfish") using the Japanese character for awabi ("abalone").<br />(Tr. David Lanoue)<br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-59504237783571301232009-02-20T15:43:00.000+09:002009-02-20T15:43:00.000+09:00Kishiwada Journal;In Japan, Deflating a Poisonous ...Kishiwada Journal;In Japan, Deflating a Poisonous Pufferfish Legend <BR/>By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF , 1996<BR/><BR/>For countless centuries, one of the greatest and costliest Japanese delicacies has been fugu, or pufferfish. It is renowned for the possibility that it will leave the diner flopping on the floor, gasping for breath, and soon as dead as the fish itself. <BR/><BR/>A single fugu contains enough poison to kill 30 people, although no fish is on record for staging quite such a massacre. There is no antidote, and so -- human nature being what it is -- the only food regarded as more alluring in Japan than raw fish is poisonous raw fish. <BR/><BR/>The problem is that these days, knowledge of fugu and training of chefs has improved so much that a diner stands an excellent chance of surviving the meal. In each of the last two years, only one person has died from fugu poisoning, and that takes some of the interest out of the food. <BR/><BR/>"The fugu problem has come to an end," Kiichi Kitahama, director of a <B>museum </B>devoted to fugu, declared as he sat in an office cluttered with scientific and medical analyses of pufferfish. The museum is in a warren of zigzag alleys in this coastal town of Kishiwada, on the Osaka Bay in Western Japan -- a region that consumes 70 percent of the nation's fugu. <BR/><BR/>Mr. Kitahama, who also runs a fugu restaurant (no casualties so far, except for the fish) says that fugu has become so mundane a food that he will close the museum, making it a victim of the improved survival rate. <BR/><BR/>"I'm closing the museum because it had only one goal, which was to stop fugu poisoning," Mr. Kitahama said, surrounded by baleful-looking pufferfish preserved and mounted throughout his restaurant and museum. "Now there are very few poisoning cases, so the goal has been basically accomplished." <BR/><BR/>Mr. Kitahama said he started the museum after 176 people died of fugu poisoning in a single year, 1958. The idea was to promote knowledge of fugu and training of chefs so fugu could be prepared safely. <BR/><BR/>To be sure, fugu consumption is as great as ever these days, for people do not seem to mind eating a fish dinner that they will probably survive. But the risk has diminished to the point that it is now possible to eat fugu absentmindedly. <BR/><BR/>Mr. Yoshida's trust is considerable, because, he said, he had eaten fugu liver -- one of the deadliest parts. Selling or serving the liver is illegal in Japan, but customers sometimes ask for a bit because it is said to be the tastiest part and to do wonders for men. <BR/><BR/>"If you eat the liver, you get stronger and more virile," Mr. Yoshida said proudly. "I know it's supposed to be dangerous, but if the chef serves it, I'd trust him." <BR/><BR/>A tiny amount of liver also sometimes gives a numbing sensation, a very mild form of the paralysis that can also kill. Some diners find this thrilling, a kind of fishy high. <BR/><BR/>Half of the cases of fugu poisoning involve liver, 7 percent the skin, and 43 percent the ovaries, according to the Fugu Research Institute, run by Mr. Kitahama in conjunction with his fugu museum. Few people eat the ovaries on purpose, but fugu testicles are regarded as a great delicacy, perhaps the best way for a man to become more virile. <BR/>The catch is that fugu are sometimes hermaphrodites with both ovaries and testicles. Thus cooks sometimes mistakenly offer ovaries as testicles, unless they are well versed in fugu private parts. <BR/><BR/>The Japanese fascination with fugu is a bit odd because in most respects Japan is a risk-averse country. Nominally to protect the health of the Japanese people, although perhaps as a form of protectionism, the Government even bans such common American medications as Tylenol. <BR/><BR/>The poison in pufferfish, which are also called blowfish or swellfish because when threatened they expand into an ominous round ball, is called tetrodotoxin. This toxin is also in some newts found on the West Coast of the United States and in the Carolinas. Some deaths have been reported among people swallowing the newts in America. <BR/><BR/>To a foreign palate, it is not obvious why people spend $40 to $300 per person for a dinner of fugu. The raw fugu slices, or sashimi, have an interesting texture but little taste, and fugu testicles are disconcertingly mushy as well as tasteless. <BR/><BR/>Before they are allowed to prepare fugu, Japanese chefs must pass a rigorous examination that insures their familiarity with fugu sexual anatomy. Fugu restaurants like Zuboraya in Osaka dispose of toxic organs in special locked barrels that are taken away to be burned by specialists in hazardous waste. <BR/><BR/>Kiyoharu Hayashi, the head chef at Zuboraya, whose three outlets go through 4,400 pounds of pufferfish on a busy day, insisted that restaurant patrons face no danger. With a dig at Britain's problems with mad cow disease, he mused, "Maybe now fugu is safer than hamburger."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-90065124078594446162008-06-18T10:25:00.000+09:002008-06-18T10:25:00.000+09:00sitting cross-legged a monkey joins too... pufferf...<B><BR/>sitting cross-legged <BR/>a monkey joins too... <BR/>pufferfish soup </B><BR/><BR/>agura shite saru mo za toru ya fukuto-jiru<BR/><BR/>.胡坐して猿も座とるや鰒汁<BR/><BR/>by Issa, 1814<BR/><BR/>Pufferfish soup (fukuto-jiru) is a winter season word.<BR/><BR/>Tr. David Lanoue<BR/>http://cat.xula.edu/issa/<BR/><BR/>..............................<BR/><BR/>鮑 the kanji can also be used for awabi, abalone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-2644949368354466562007-12-21T12:50:00.000+09:002007-12-21T12:50:00.000+09:00after pufferfish soup soon fans are flittingfugu k...<B><BR/>after pufferfish soup <BR/>soon fans <BR/>are flitting</B><BR/><BR/>fugu kuute shibaraku oogi zukai kana<BR/><BR/>.鰒くふてしばらく扇づかひ哉<BR/><BR/>by Issa<BR/><BR/>Pufferfish soup (fukuto-jiru) is a <B>winter season word.</B><BR/><BR/>Tr. David Lanoue http://cat.xula.edu/issa/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-54749495193123366812007-06-08T11:59:00.000+09:002007-06-08T11:59:00.000+09:00The WIKIPEDIAPorcupinefish are fish of the family...The WIKIPEDIA<BR/><BR/><B>Porcupinefish </B> are fish of the family Diodontidae, (order Tetraodontiformes), also commonly called blowfish (and, sometimes, "balloonfish" or "globefish").<BR/><BR/>They are sometimes confused with pufferfish. Porcupinefish are closely related to pufferfishes but porcupinefish have spines on their body.<BR/><BR/>Porcupinefish have the ability to inflate their body by swallowing water (or air) and become round like a ball. This increase in size (almost double vertically) reduces the range of potential predators to those with much bigger mouths. A second defense mechanism is provided by the sharp spines, which radiate outwards when the fish is inflated. <BR/><BR/>Some species are poisonous, having a tetrodotoxin in their skin and/or intestines. As a result, porcupinefish have few predators: adults are rarely eaten except by sharks and orcas, though juveniles are also preyed on by tuna and dolphins.<BR/><BR/>MORE<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupinefish<BR/><BR/>...................................<BR/><B><BR/>BLOWFISH<BR/><BR/>The Tetraodontidae </B>is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish. The family includes many familiar species which are variously called puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, and toadies.[1] They are morphologically similar to the closely related porcupinefish, which have large conspicuous spines (unlike the small, almost sandpaper-like spines of Tetraodontidae). <BR/><BR/>The scientific name, Tetraodontidae, refers to the four large teeth, fused into an upper and lower plate, which are used for crushing the shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.<BR/><BR/>The skin and certain internal organs of many Tetraodontidae are highly toxic to humans, but nevertheless the meat of some species is considered a delicacy in Japan (as fugu) and Korea (as boh-guh).<BR/><BR/>The Tetraodontidae contains at least 121 species of puffers in 19 genera. <BR/><BR/>They are most diverse in the tropics and relatively uncommon in the temperate zone and completely absent from cold waters. Puffers are mostly found in coastal regions though some are oceanic (e.g., Lagocephalus lagocephalus) or live in the deep sea (e.g., Sphoeroides pachygaster). <BR/><BR/>A large number of puffers are found in brackish and fresh waters: at least 39 marine species enter brackish or freshwater to feed or breed (e.g., Arothron hispidus), and a further 28 species are completely freshwater fish in distribution and never enter the sea (e.g., Colomesus asellus).<BR/><BR/>Tetrodotoxin is a powerful neurotoxin that can cause death in nearly 60% of the humans that ingest it. A human only has to ingest a few milligrams of the toxin for a fatal reaction to occur. Once consumed the toxin blocks the sodium channels in the nervous tissues, ultimately paralyzing the muscle tissue. <BR/><BR/>Curiously, the toxin seems not to be synthesized by the fish itself, but by bacteria associated with the fish. The fish has a mutation in its own sodium channels which makes it resistant to the effect of the toxin.<BR/><BR/>MORE<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish<BR/><BR/>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com