04226nam 22009135 450 991078331870332120230207223550.00-520-92358-81-59734-967-410.1525/9780520923584(CKB)1000000000030658(EBL)223960(OCoLC)475929488(SSID)ssj0000262780(PQKBManifestationID)11225321(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262780(PQKBWorkID)10271274(PQKB)10182625(DE-B1597)521019(OCoLC)1100575372(DE-B1597)9780520923584(MiAaPQ)EBC223960(EXLCZ)99100000000003065820200424h20042004 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTsukiji The Fish Market at the Center of the World /Theodore C. BestorBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (441 p.)California Studies in Food and Culture ;11Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22023-4 Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --List of Tables --Preface --Acknowledgments --Words, Dates, Statistics, Money --1. Tokyo's Pantry --2. Grooved Channels --3. From Landfill to Marketplace --4. The Raw and the Cooked --5. Visible Hands --6. Family Firm --7. Trading Places --8. Full Circle --Appendix One. Visiting Tsukiji --Appendix Two. Video,Web, and Statistical Resources --Glossary --Notes --Bibliography --IndexLocated only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji-the world's largest marketplace for seafood-is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor-who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and fishing ports in Japan, North America, Korea, and Europe-explains the complex social institutions that organize Tsukiji's auctions and the supply lines leading to and from them and illuminates trends of Japan's economic growth, changes in distribution and consumption, and the increasing globalization of the seafood trade. As he brings to life the sights and sounds of the marketplace, he reveals Tsukiji's rich internal culture, its place in Japanese cuisine, and the mercantile traditions that have shaped the marketplace since the early seventeenth century.MarketsJapanTokyoHistorySeafood industryJapanTokyoHistoryTokyo (Japan)Social life and customs17th century.asian culture.asian history.case study.east asia.economics.economy.ethnography.fieldwork.fishmonger.foodways.globalization.international.japan.japanese culture.japanese food.marketplace.public health.seafood trade.seafood.sushi chef.sushi.technology.tokyo.tourism.tourist trap.tourist.tsukiji.MarketsHistory.Seafood industryHistory.381.4370952135Bestor Theodore C.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut479442DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910783318703321Tsukiji3678677UNINA