From Tanizaki's eyes, which showed a deep commitment to food culture, compared to Kansai's food culture, which has a long tradition, "Tokyo's specialty" is "a lot of things that seem strangely cold," such as salt senbei, laver, sparrow ware, and sardines.
"If you have good dried sweets and raw sweets, there is no rabbit or horn, no yokan, and salted rice crackers are so barbarous that they are famous. However, Monaka and rural buns have some good things, but they are crude, poor, and murderous."
"It's not limited to Tokyo, which is said to be a good thing. ・・ ・ However, in Tokyo, there is no good food used in formal dishes, and there is no way to fish such strange twisted things. "
"In fact, when I hear the word 'Otsu', I feel a kind of chilly man, and I feel sad at all, thinking of the thinness of the Tokyo people who are hidden behind it."
For the Kansai people, it's shy, but I wonder if it's okay to abuse Tokyo so much.
And Tanizaki said:
"I wonder where the weird lonelyness of the Tokyo people's clothing, food and shelter comes from, but is it not affected by the Tohoku people after all? ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Because people in Tokyo live in the center of politics, it is easy to think that it is the center of Japan in terms of geographical and humanities, but when I happened to go out of Kansai, Tokyo somehow seems to be the gateway to Tohoku, and it is deeply felt that Tohoku starts here. ・・・・・・
When we look at Tokyo as "the one belonging to the Tohoku region", the land of Arabu where Yi, which used to be called "the east where birds cry", used to be called "the east", is politically, according to the Irifu of Gongen-sama, is artificially a bustling town. For the first time, it is a specialty of Asakusa Senju or Senju.
However, Saiden Stecker said, "When I read" About Osaka and Osaka people I saw, my teacher always said that Tokyo is useless, and lifts Osaka culture. But that seems to have been a kind of literary pose. The teacher dared to create an image of "anti-Edokko". " ("The real intention of an anti-Edo kid" lantier book "Junichirou Tanizaki East-West taste comparison", commentary).
