Chansu was kneeling at the bottom of his father’s grave.

ISOROKU YAMAMATO,
read the grave. It laid inside the infamous Tama cemetery. He was a celebrated
war hero of japan. Chansu tried to remember the hymn his father used to repeat.
They may crush cinnabar,Yet they do not take away its colr
Assistant to kitagawa fuyuhiko
The house wife’s companion shufu nu tommo
The shufu Writes to a column for jijo shinpo on novel recipes and ingredients
these recipes have strength of advice from experts like the master of
kagetsuro in shinbashi we can recommend them with confidence for method and
accuracy
worries about the osandon’s ( maid that helped prepare food ) unhygienic
clothing that could invite diseases into the household (discovery of bacteria still
recent knowledge)
need for a solid white kappogi a cuisine garment
whites a rarely worn color a taboo colr marked special occasions
tendency to treat lightly the things that occur rarely also unconsciously marks the
opposite tendency that the everyday world of kitchens have turned into a world
of special danger and taboos
in large urban households kitchen had been a factory wherer productin and
preservatn followed annual and seasnl cycles and not a daily one
this diversified cuisine but cfeated implicit pressure for daily variety
rhythms of kitchen work change
importance given to nutritional content of each dish and food is less associated
with seasons and more with the nutrients it provide
standards of health and hygiene heightened the sense of protecting the invisible
boundaries around the kitchen
the kitchen door
daily traffic of tradesppl supplying provisions water carriage from well firewood
from woodpile

door to the social world of the maid occupying both masters house and a
community beyond the house
although the maids habits were better than most her ignorance of the
communicability of bacteria was a reason for the housewife to keep a close eye

daily ingenuity of the enlightened housewife

yokomitsu riichi
new sensationalism
objectivity of an object as representation of the emotional cognition broken away
from subjective objectivity
trivial external factors that show his mechanistic view of the world
experiencing rapid changes in the Japanese culture he must have felt like a small
part of a machine that he did not control
he sensed mechanisms that controlled human beings and tried to explain the
world through them
shanghai 1931 a foretaste of the world to come
characters left one dimensional and superficial
work as unpleasant and the character as otherwise useless
some invisible machine was constantly measuring us all as if it understood
everything that went on and was pushing us according to the results of its
measurements
a symbol of fate keene
without local roots and facing loss of long established customs
transferred insecurity into a sense of trivial mechanisms all his works have in
common