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 "Miso no Kyutei", Miyoko Toyonaga, miso sommelier
The popular female owner of "Miso no Kyutei" founded in 1955.
She is called miso sommelier. There are lots of customers often coming to the shop just because they are attracted by the sommelier's character, who runs the shop wearing a "nejirihachimaki", a twisted towel tied around her head and a "hanten", a traditional Japanese outfit worn by merchants. |
"Will you make misosoup for me forever?" was at a time the standard phrase among men when proposing. The fact that the word "miso" was used as the beginning of a couple's most important event only shows how deeply rooted it is in Japanese everyday life. Recently miso is getting more and more famous overseas as healthy food from Japan. I find myself is the interview that took place at "Miso no Kyutei", Kameido in Tokyo, a shop which has been selling miso, a major Japanese food culture, for more than 50 years.
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 Sayuki [Geisha of Australian nationality]
Born in Melbourne, Australia, she arrived in Japan as an exchange student at the age of fifteen. Upon graduation from a high school and a college in Japan, she was matriculated at the University of Oxford to continue her study and completed her doctorate in social anthropology. Beginning geisha practices in 2007 and made her public debut in December that year. She intends to record the actual geisha life of her own and introduce correctly to the world, from a scholar's viewpoint, what a geisha is in a true sense. |
Sayuki [Geisha of Australian nationality]In Asakusa, a district in Tokyo, still preserving local flavor and sentiment which are gradually fading away in the mind of the Japanese, an interview was conducted to the foreign woman, the first non-Japanese who knocked on the door of a Japanese courtesan district. We wonder how Japan would look like in the eyes of the foreign lady, who made herself a geisha known as Sayuki since her debut in December, 2007, while holding scholar status as a social anthropologist. |
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