A brief History of Coffee in Japan | how does Japan develop coffee from exotic to local?

When did the coffee arrive in japan? It is said that the Portuguese and Spaniards who spread Christianity in the Muromachi era introduced Christianity into a theory, but the strong theory is that Dutch merchants brought it to Nagasaki out of the island after the Edo era.

Historically, Dutch scholars are said to have been invited to Dutch mansions off the island for coffee. The first sentence of Kabuki of Nagasaki Yuyama received in the Nagasaki Dictionary of Nagasaki in 1797 (9th year of Kansai) was "a box of Kowohi beans".

In addition, as a more reliable document, in 1782, the Dutch scholar Tadao Shizuku wrote a book called the General Canal. But this is actually the fruit of a tree. " The name "Xiaosheng prescription" in the third grade of Tianming also points out that coffee is an effective drug for all kinds of diseases, which is well known. In addition, Siebold, a German who worked as a doctor at a Dutch trading company in Tokushima at the end of the Edo period, said: "the reason the Japanese don't drink too much coffee is that it is not recommended. You'll drink. " This is a very interesting word, from a very keen observation.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan was in line with modern western civilization. Japan's first western restaurant was born in Tokyo, where coffee was gradually added to the menu. On April 13, 1888, the first official coffee shop in Japan, called "can you Cha Cha", was opened by a man named Zheng Yongqing in the town of Heimen, Tokyo. Yongqing, whose parents are diplomats, converted his house into a Western-style house, selling only 1.5 yuan of black coffee and 2 yuan of milk coffee. Unfortunately, whether tea can be closed in less than three years, but Zheng opened a coffee shop for the public in the days of Luming Restaurant, which is particularly famous in the history of Japanese coffee.

Since the mid-Meiji era, the number of shops in which you can drink coffee has gradually increased. At the end of the Meiji era, Cafe Plantin and Cafe Lion opened in Ginza, Tokyo. Among them, the one that has made the greatest contribution to the popularity of coffee is Cafe Paulista, which opened to promote the sale and promotion of Brazilian coffee. Most immigrants from Japan to Brazil (which began in 1891) worked on coffee farms, and in return the Brazilian government provided coffee beans free of charge. Paurista, which sells coffee using beans at a low price, has more than 20 stores and more than 1000 employees at its peak.

One of the people who works at Paurista is Kenji Shibata, founder of Key Coffee. Wenji found that the coffee business played an important role in the prosperity of Paulista, so in 1918 he opened a kimura bookstore in Naka Ward, Yokohama. Since then, in order to popularize coffee in Japan, in addition to making and selling coffee, we have also introduced coffee and coffee equipment from all over the world, and even engaged in coffee growing business. On the other hand, we have made great contributions to the development of Japanese coffee culture by developing new products such as coffee syrup and actively promoting coffee.