Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi and Sashimi, Vol. 4

Author: Tetsu Kariya
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421521428
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The best selling and most beloved food manga of all time! As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tōzai News have commissioned the creation of the "Ultimate Menu," a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Yamaoka Shirō, an inveterate cynic who possesses no initiative--but also an incredibly refined palate and an encyclopedic knowledge of food. Yamaoka and his father, Kaibara Yūzan, have never enjoyed an ideal father-son relationship. In fact, it's about as far from ideal as possible, and when they start arguing about food--which they inevitably do--the sparks really fly. In this volume of Oishinbo the subject of dispute is fish, starting with the question of whether mackerel can ever be truly good sashimi. Later, things come to a head during the "Salmon Match," which pits father against son in an epic contest to develop the best dish before a panel of judges. Will Yamaoka finally defeat Kaibara? Or will he once again be left in his father's shadow?

Oishinbo: The Joy of Rice

Author: Tetsu Kariya
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421521442
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A quest for the ultimate menu! R to L (Japanese Style). "The Joy of Rice" In this volume of Oishinbo, Yamaoka and company look into the single most essential food in Japanese cuisine: rice. Cultivated for millennia, a staple meal in itself and the basis of countless other dishes, rice is an important component not only of the Japanese kitchen but also of Japanese culture. When Yamaoka is asked by TMzai's head chef for help in coming up with a new rice dish, what starts out as a simple culinary request rapidly grows into a disquisition into the past, present and future of Japan's food culture. As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the TMzai News have commissioned the creation of the "Ultimate Menu," a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Yamaoka ShirM, an inveterate cynic who possesses no initiative--but also an incredibly refined palate and an encyclopedic knowledge of food. Each volume of Oishinbo follows Yamaoka and his colleagues through another adventure on their quest for the Ultimate Menu. Now, the highlights from the hundred-plus volume series have been selected and compiled into A la Carte editions: bite-sized chunks of story arranged by subject that add up to a full-course manga meal!

Tsukiji

Author: Theodore C. Bestor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520220242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
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Multiethnic Japan

Author: John Lie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674040175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society. Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chinese, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity. Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan is a post-World War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the monoethnic ideology. He also makes a general argument about the nature of national identity, delving into the mechanisms of social classification, signification, and identification.

Manga

Author: Toni Johnson-Woods
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826429386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
A collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, providing a definitive, one-stop Manga resource.

Oishinbo

Author: Tetsu Kariya
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442066311
Category : Cooking, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As part of the one hundredth anniversary celebrations of the Tåozai News, journalist Yamaoka Shiråo, who works for the newspaper, is assigned to create the Ultimate Menu, and researches how to make the perfect gyåoza and a bowl of ramen.

The Anime Companion 2

Author: Gilles Poitras
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1880656965
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Become an expert on cultural details commonly seen in Japanese animation, movies, comics and TV shows.

Oishinbo, Sake

Author: Tetsu Kariya
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442066304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As they continue to work on creating the Ultimate Menu, journalist Yamaoka Shiråo and his colleagues investigate the different varieties of sake and try to come up with the perfect food-and-drink combinations.

One Trick Rip-Off / Deep Cuts

Author: Paul Pope
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 9781607067184
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Young lovers Tubby and Vim want to escape — escape the mistakes they've made, the lives they've lived, and the dirty city weighing them down. Their plan is simple — all they have to do is rip-off Tubby's pals, the One Tricks, the toughest street gang in LA! If they pull it off, they're set for life. If not, their lives won't matter much anyway. From Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Paul Poe (Batman: Year 100, THB, Heavy Liquid, 100%) and presented for the first time in color by Jamie Grant (All-Star Superman), One Trick Rip-Off / Deep Cuts is 288-pages of raw power, of which over 150-pages are comprised of new, rare, and never-before-seen stories created during Pope's time traveling the world in the '90s. Included in the Deep Cuts section is a bounty of unpublished and rare work Pope did in the '90s, including the legendary Supertrouble manga, created for Kodansha in Japan, appearing here in print for the first time.

Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi and Sashimi, Vol. 4

Author: Tetsu Kariya
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421548356
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Yamaoka and his father, Kaibara Yūzan, have never enjoyed an ideal father-son relationship. In fact, it's about as far from ideal as possible, and when they start arguing about food--which they inevitably do--the sparks really fly. In this volume of Oishinbo the subject of dispute is fish, starting with the question of whether mackerel can ever be truly good sashimi. Later, things come to a head during the "Salmon Match," which pits father against son in an epic contest to develop the best dish before a panel of judges. Will Yamaoka finally defeat Kaibara? Or will he once again be left in his father's shadow? -- VIZ Media