It was the influential food merchant Nakagawa Kahee (中川嘉兵衛 1817-97) that made kakigōri accessible to everyone.
He opened a regular shipping route from Hokkaidō to Yokohama, allowing for 'Hyōsuiten' (氷水店), the first kakigōri store, to open in Bashamichi (馬車道) in 1872.
There is one other reason the date is important.
On June 25th 1933 Yamagata City recorded a high of 40.8 degrees (thanks to the Foehn Effect), astonishing the country at the time.
Nowadays this type of temperature is becoming all too common during the summer🥹
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) describes a dessert created by scraping ice shavings with a metal knife into a metal bowl. It was flavoured with the sweet sap of arrowroot (葛 'kuzu vine')...not so different from today's kakigōri!
🧊KAKIGŌRI🍧
One summer treat Kyōtoites cannot do without is 'kakigōri' (かき氷), a shaved-ice dessert covered in all kinds of deliciousness.
The first reference we have to kakigōri in Japan is in Chapter 42 of Sei Shōnagon's (清少納言 966-1017) 'The Pillow Book' (枕草子).
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Kicked off いも・くり・かぼちゃ season with this excellent sweet potato kakigoori yesterday, which was delicious and hearty despite turning to soup in 0.2 seconds in the heat 😂 There were lots of delicious sweet potato pieces inside.
🧊KAKIGŌRI🍧
One summer treat Kyōtoites cannot do without is 'kakigōri' (かき氷), a shaved-ice dessert covered in all kinds of deliciousness.
The first reference we have to kakigōri in Japan is in Chapter 42 of Sei Shōnagon's (清少納言 966-1017) 'The Pillow Book' (枕草子).
Shōnagon describes a dessert created by scraping ice shavings with a metal knife into a metal bowl. It was flavoured with the sweet sap of arrowroot (葛 'kuzu vine')...not so different from today's kakigōri!
#Japan #kakigori #かき氷 #Kyoto
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