An Analysis of the History of Coffee Culture in Japan

The Japanese drink coffee by the writer of the crazy singer and opera in 1804. In the book Qiongpu and Qiongpu, the people of Shushan in Daejeon were invited to drink something called coffee on a red-haired ship. The beans were fried black and powdered, mixed with white sugar, and the bitter smell could not adapt to the bitter taste. Judging from the background in which coffee is imported from the island and is not widely accepted, the policy of locking up the country has indeed affected the Japanese people's unaccustomed to the taste of the new drink.

The real popularity began in the middle of Meiji. Members of the founding literary magazine Hiroshi Kitahara, Woodpecker Ishikawa, Kwangtaro Takamura, Haruo Sato, and Hiroshi Nagai meet each month at the "Hung Nest" venue in Ogumachi, Japan. In that shop, you can drink authentic French cuisine and foreign wine, and coffee is also authentic French deep-roasted coffee. The nest of Hong is like a social field for literati. From the Meiji era to the Taisho era, cultural salons like this did help create several coffee houses, and Japan finally entered the culture of coffee. However, it is still a rare shop for ordinary people.

The coffee salon formed at that time was a social place for literati or literary youth, but at the same time affordable coffee houses were popular unwittingly. In the heyday of the Taisho era, there were more than 20 branches across the country. Why is the coffee salon so popular? Because the coffee in the high-end western restaurant cost 15 yuan at that time, while imitating the coffee shop in Paris or New York, a cup of low-priced coffee with 5 yuan was thoroughly implemented. So you can have authentic and fragrant Brazilian coffee at a price of 1/3. In the national well-known coffee salon, it is hard to count the Japanese who have tasted delicious coffee. Coffee salon has left an indelible contribution to popular coffee. In the Taisho era, the number of coffee lovers did increase a lot, and it became more popular in the Showa era, but World War II stopped importing coffee because it was an "enemy drink." In Japanese life, coffee disappeared for a moment. Coffee is appreciated and loved by people as "messengers of peace".

Are you looking forward to the next stop? Although the National Day holiday is coming to an end, our coffee trip to James Joyce Coffetel has just begun. Hope to have more friends to join us, our journey needs you ~

Source: network