Basics of japanese dish arrangement

Let’s remember the fixed position when dishes are arranged in the meal for when you are sending out dishes to our customers.

The premise of placement is “easy to eat”.

Below, I will introduce the fixed position when arranging the dishes in the meal.

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Please refer to the next videos for details.

【趣味で始める陶芸入門】陶磁器の見方、選び方、使い方のポイント

焼き物と一口に言っても陶器や磁器、炻器など、様々な種類があります。普段は何気なく使っているその食器、陶器か磁器かによって特徴がありますし、使うときやお手入れで注意したいポイントがあるんです。せっかく手に入れた器を長くきれいに使っていくためにも、その特徴と使うときの注意点を覚えておきましょう！

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2024.12.19

How to use Chopsticks    

Why do not you practice how to hold the correct chopsticks on occasion? 

When you hold your chopsticks beautifully it seems that the work is beautiful by itself. 

Recently, more people bringing their own chopsticks are increasing. 

It is recommended to change your own chopsticks to the purpose of eco.

How to arrange dishes and hold chopsticks

How to hold the correct chopsticks and make the posture beautiful is the basis of beautiful manners. 

For ease of holding chopsticks, put the thicker part on the right. 

Lift bowl with the left hand, hold the center of the chopsticks and hold it with the right hand from the bottom and hold it cleanly.

Do not move the chopsticks below, just move the top chopsticks is the right way to hold chopsticks.

 Arrangement in the meal (Fixed position)

Rice is to the front. Soup is right in front. In the middle, pickled stuff. 

The left back is stewed dish, the back of the back is main dish. 

Baked goods on the far side In a drinking-table etc.

【趣味で始める陶芸入門】やきものの種類～ その違いと特徴を解説

やきもの種類は4つ。陶器、磁器、炻器（せっき）、土器です。①陶器は吸水性があり、温かみがある。美濃焼や瀬戸焼、益子焼、笠間焼、唐津焼が有名。②磁器は石から作られ、白くて硬い。有田焼、京焼、九谷焼が有名。③炻器は土をかたく焼き締めたもの。信楽焼、備前焼、丹波焼が有名。④土器は低温で焼かれたもろい焼き物。園芸用の鉢など。

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2025.03.05

 Basics when serving in sake cups etc.

At the sake ‘s seat, rice will come out later, so we will not arrange them together on the table. 

Glass is left front, Soup is right in front, An appetizer in the middle, Two rows left side is stewed dish, Sashimi in the center, Right is grilled, Deep-fried in the middle of vinegared on the far left, Steamed in the back right. 

Chopstick 箸（はし）

Chopsticks(hashi) are two sticks that hold food between than when one eats. 

They were brought from ancient China. 

In Japan, Hashi are almost always used when eating.

Most are made of wood or bamboo painted with lacquer or of plastic, but there are also high-class ones with the inside made of ivory.

Hashi put out for visitors or in restaurants are half-split chopsticks; made of unfinished wood, they are to be used and thrown away. 

Most Japanese are skillful at using Hashi, because they learned how from their parents during childhood.