You’re good at peeling apples, Maruko.

I wonder if it has been like this with such stripes since back then, and it seems like it might be.

The cut is stylish, isn’t it?

How watermelons were cut during the Edo period | Ota Memorial Museum of Art

On August 18, 2020, when I made a tweet like this, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art received the highest number of “likes” since opening its Twitter account in 2012 (as of the time of writing this article, 33,127 people).

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So apples have been around since then…

Even if apples were available back then, fruits must have been luxury items, so that means Tora and the others were living quite well.

It seems that apples were brought to Japan after the Meiji era… ?

It seems that apples became popular after the Meiji era.
I wonder what kind of pear it is.

Isn’t it peeling the heads of kittens like in Tora Ganryu?

It looks difficult to eat juicy things when your mouth is cut.

Actually, there were apples and peaches, but they were not the mainstream varieties today and were quite small.
Until the middle of the Edo period, the smaller and less popular varieties of mandarin oranges were consumed instead of the now-prevalent Satsuma mandarins.

Has time passed, and has it become commonly circulated?

Until around the middle of the Edo period, making frozen mandarins was quite difficult.

If you eat a whole watermelon, something red will come out of your butt and you’ll have a terrifying experience.

When someone says “watermelon,” those from Kishu think of “Gengobei.”

I hate the sound of cicadas without any refreshing feeling.

Some of them are old manga, but the historical accuracy is quite loose.

Well, it’s not the type of manga where historical accuracy is important…

I wonder if there were so few apprentices during that time.

Since Master Ushimata is not too aggressive, consistency is maintained.

It seems that apples didn’t bear much fruit until pesticides were developed.

It is a work that even muscles resent people.
Apples also existed in the Edo period.

In other words, apples were considered medicine.

The apple that inspired Newton to discover universal gravitation.
I feel like it was much smaller than I imagined.

In the timeline of the ceremonial match, I had succeeded in growing watermelons.

That’s right.

Rare confection…

The original work comes up with the push-cutting strategy by watching someone cut a watermelon.
The manga has a feeling of pushing through from the very beginning, almost like the brain is muscular.

I was breaking sake bottles during flow training, but the invention of the sake bottle was actually in the late Edo period.
I learned about it in the book “The Birth of Izakaya” and thought, wow.

I love the scene where everyone is having fun together, watching the sea turtles lay eggs after practice, and eating watermelon, but it’s painful knowing that a gruesome destruction is waiting for us…

So, was it a lie that the one-armed swordsman and the blind swordsman were going to fight?

Shigurui should be a series that started quite a bit after 2000.
It’s not a comic from the Showa era that you can casually talk about as if it’s just some old manga.
I’m not the type to think about historical accuracy or consideration.

Nufuu

I’m confused even if a watermelon with a completely black skin and white inside is presented to me.

The restaurant scene with the bamboo shoots is actually not like that with tables; instead, people sit cross-legged on tatami mats and eat from trays.

The skin is like that of a cucumber, so it’s edible.
The seeds are not very tasty.

I heard that the skin is delicious when pickled.

I searched for old watermelons, but they really look gross…

I feel like I pushed it onto my disciple because I didn’t want to eat it.

Isn’t watermelon originally from China?
In Chinese, it’s called watermelon (xīguā).

Do you eat the skin too…?
Can it be eaten…?

I wonder if everyone planted watermelon seeds after this.

The watermelon rind itself is edible enough to be used for pickling.

The watermelon is delicious right now, but…
Even when I was a child, it was only slightly sweet and had a grassy taste, so the ones from the Edo period must have been almost like cucumbers.

The story about apples was in Rurouni Kenshin.

The mikan tree that is said to have been planted by Ieyasu at the site of Sunpu Castle also had small fruit.

Teacher Kogan is not just cruel; he properly evaluates Fujiki as well.
It’s portrayed that they are not simply crazy people dyed in the rules of the samurai society.
On top of that, everyone is just crushed, including the dark rulers, for the sake of putting the Tokugawa family in a rock-solid and stable position, which is brutally cruel.

If that shell guy hadn’t answered incorrectly, this could have continued like this.

Aren’t they just going to make excuses to kill and take it if they want it, no matter how expensive it is?

It’s common that things like tables seen in period dramas didn’t actually exist.

The shell guy isn’t bad! I won’t say that, but Irako does have an overly delicate side.

Even if I managed to rise to serve in the castle, I would probably ruin myself because of women.