10 November 2015
Sushi bar, Shobu, Nagasaki airport, Omura, Nagasaki (しょうぶ 長崎空港 大村), Japan
The video of the spouting of the whale in Nagasaki Okunchi festival
The shop name is “iris” in Japanese. The name has likely
come from the irises planted in the moats around Omura castle. Nagasaki
prefecture has several ports for the fisherman and the amount of landing seafood
were No.2 in Japan. The seafood and seafood products were specialty in this
prefecture.
Before leaving Nagasaki, I recommend you to have a glass or
beer and several Sashimi, seafood soup or Sushi in this restaurant. You also
taste the Japanese Sake (rice wine) or Shochu (clear liquor) at this
restaurant. The black fishes were very nice on the season with Shochu with warm
water (Oyuwari お湯割り).
On my visiting, I had whale and Sashimi with rice and soup.
The whale had been the signature special products in Nagasaki. For the almost
all western country person, Whales were just Mammalia with natural resource of
whale oil. Till end of World war II, the whale oil was the major oil resource
for the human society. For the Japanese society in Edo era, the whale was one of
the sources of Proteins. In modern ages, the whale was oil resource and food
for the Japanese life style. The whale was a deity in the local community,
giving food and some materials from born or teeth to the village. These days,
the people in Nagasaki had nostalgia to the whales. The most popular whale was blue
whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which was known as the king of the whale meats.
Akami of Whale (The fillet part of Whale meat)
Mackrel pickled with soy source Don
The Miso soup of Arakabu (scorpionfish)
The sea shepherd, like the pie name, has no background of
the culture as the friend of whale. Their progenitor has chase about the hip of
whale to get only oil and money. They had no qualifications to say about the
culture.
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