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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19253616
https://www.setouchiexplorer.com/soy-sauce-wooden-barrel-making-on-shodoshima/
More than soy
For the past 150 years, the Yamamotos and their millions of microbes have been making the family’s Yamaroku soy sauce by mixing soybeans with wheat, salt and water, and letting it ferment in a four-year process. But as more and more of Japan’s soy brewers have swapped their wooden barrels for steel tanks, a big problem has occurred: the country is running out of kioke, and almost no-one knows how to build them. In the last seven years, Yamamoto has set out to learn this ancient craft and teach it to others to try to ensure its survival.
The Sõtõ sect was actively engaged in Buddhist propagation in colonialKorea after having succeeded in establishing its ³rst missionary temple inPusan in 1905. By the time it withdrew from Korea in 1945, the Sõtõ sect had secured an extensive propagation network connecting more than one hundred temples. Despite its successful Buddhist polemics, Sõtõ’s Buddhist teachings in Korea were basically political propaganda viable only with i nthe framework of Japanese colonial imperialism. The Sõtõ sect in colonial Korea was deeply involved in the cause of Japanese imperialism by carrying out three major tasks: Buddhist services for the Japanese military, pro-motion of the “kõminka” (transforming [the colonial peoples] into imperial subjects) policy, and the paci³cation of colonial subjects. Not surprisingly, none of these goals—which were promoted in the name of Buddhist compassion and non-selfhood in the tradition of Zen Buddhism—could survive the collapse of Imperial Japan’s claim to “universal benevolence”that had been premised on the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
Keywords: Sõtõ sect—imperialism—colonialism—Korea—Takeda Hanshi—kõminka movement
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