Chapter 2: Glossary
Hi again, since I'm not really done ('not really done' HAH, only abt 30% done in fact) with my ninth chapter, 'The Floating World I' and I am not able to update it, (well obviously) I am going to make up for it this week with another glossary. Yay!
I just thought Tomomi's new hairstyle is chic so I'll just upload it at the side <3
Hakodate （函館）
A small city located on the southern tip of the northern island of Hokkaido, facing the Tsugaru Strait. Once a major trading centre, it has now lost its importance to other major ports in the northern area to cities like Sapporo and Aomori. Hakodate has a population of roughly about 280,000 people, and the main district of the city is nestled on a narrow isthmus between Mount Hakodate and the Kameda Peninsula. The city was founded in 1454, during the Sengoku Period （戦国時代）(circa 1300-1600) by Kono Kaganokami Masamichi, one of the first Japanese settlements on the island. It had been developed rapidly as a trading centre with the northern provinces by the Shogunate in the Edo Period （江戸自裁) and was forcibly opened to foreign trade in the Convention of Kanagawa (1853), thus the presence of British and Russian influences in the old city. Hakodate was made the capital of the breakaway Ezo Republic, which was a rebel state made of former Shogunate supporters who opposed The Empire during the Boshin War. The state fell in 1869 and was incorporated into The Empire. The city mostly survived the Aerial Campaigns against Japanese Cities in WWII, unlike most major cities, which were razed to the ground. The city was only subject to two Allied bombings on 14 and 15 July 1945, destroying 400 houses on the west side of the city. A ferry servicing the Aomori-Hakodate route was also struck, with 400 deaths. Now, the city is a well-connected city on the south end of Hokkaido, serving as an entryway to Hokkaido via the city's major ferry terminal. Bullet train services are under construction, which will soon link the city, as well as the entire island, to all major cities in Japan.
Oyakodon
Oyakadon is a dish made of eggs,chicken and onion over rice. The name is a play on words, literally meaning 'parent & child rice'.
Unagi
An eel dish, usually coated with special sauce. Rather expensive. Can be served as a dish on its own with rice, as part of bento as well as a sushi topping.
"Ittadakimas(u)"
What is usually said before meals, as a form of giving thanks.
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