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Rice
The staple grain of much of East Asia. Inari’s stores are rice; that is a Japanese kami’s brief, not a universal harvest goddess.
Shinto
Rice is sacred to Inari.
Rice is Inari’s store. The grain is East Asian agriculture before it is a kami’s brief.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Inari is sacred to Rice.
Inari is a kami of rice and stores. Grain, not a European harvest-goddess template.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Shimenawa is historically related to Rice.
Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat shimenawa as the sacred straw rope marking purity bounds — rice-straw rope speech, not a gohei wand alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Chinese tradition
Rice appears in Chinese tradition.
Rice agriculture is also a Chinese fact. Do not fold it into Inari or into a generic “Asian harvest.”
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912
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Rice is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists rice (oryza) among imported grains with binding and stomach uses. A named rice in that handbook, not Inari’s Japanese rice already walked and not a modern bowl-food dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Rice is historically related to Oil.
In Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, Rice is named in the finish and formula lemmas beside Oil.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Rice is historically related to Milk.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, rice boiled in milk is named among astringent foods for a habitual looseness, and rice and milk boiled with sugar is proper food in a milk diet — rice is prepared with that milk.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Rice is historically related to Flour.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, soups are thickened with flour and butter, barley, rice, or oatmeal rubbed together — rice thickens beside that flour.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Rice is historically related to Wine.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, for a child too young for flesh-meats, rice may be boiled with raisins, to which a little wine and spice may be added — rice is boiled with that wine.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Rice is historically related to Butter.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, rice soufflé puts ground rice into a saucepan with milk and butter and keeps stirring until the mixture thickens — rice is cooked with that butter.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Rice is historically related to Nutmeg.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, baked rice pudding takes rice with eggs, milk, butter, currants, brandy, nutmeg, and sugar — rice is baked with that nutmeg.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Rice is historically related to Cinnamon.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, fowl pillau browns rice in butter while cinnamon among the pounded spices stews with the fowl — rice is cooked with that cinnamon spice bag.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Rice is historically related to Barley.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, to thicken soups and gravies, flour and butter, barley, rice, or oatmeal in a little water rubbed well together are used — rice sits with that barley thickener.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Tatami is historically related to Rice.
Chamberlain’s Architecture / house notes seat tatami as the thick straw mats of Japanese rooms — rice-straw flooring speech, not a Western carpet dump.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Tiffin carrier is historically related to Rice.
Hobson’s Tiffin article seats Anglo-Indian luncheon; the tiffin-carrier is the stacked lunch vessel of that meal culture — lunch furniture toward the cereal staple, not a dinner service dump.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Saffron is historically related to Rice.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, manna kroup made from wheat and rice is coloured yellow by a portion of saffron and yolks of eggs — saffron is mixed into that rice flour.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Suet is historically related to Rice.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, dormers chop cold mutton, beef suet, and boiled rice finely and mix them well together before frying — suet is mixed with that rice.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Bread is historically related to Rice.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, habitual looseness is met with astringent food such as wheat-bread of the finest flour and rice boiled in milk, and with brandy-and-water in which toasted bread has been boiled.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Starch is historically related to Rice.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, when stools are so frequent as to exhaust the patient, a starch clyster with laudanum is given as needed, and the drink may be rice-water with gum-arabic dissolved in each English pint.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Vedic tradition
Dhal is used in Rice.
Hobson’s Dhall article seats dāl pulse eaten as porridge and mixed with rice as a breakfast dish or in kedgeree — pulse-with-rice speech, not a European split-pea dump alone.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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sources
- Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.
- Jade · Berthold Laufer
Berthold Laufer, Jade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion.
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Hobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)
Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).
- Domestic Medicine · William Buchan
William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (12th ed., 1791).
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
- Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain
Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).