Yasukii Masaki's Story
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:49 am
In the weeks approaching Winter Court, a letter is delvered. At the top of the letter the kanji for Fish has been written large and four times.
In a land not so far from here, there was a troublesome noble with an incredibly refined pallette. Everyday she would receive meals, take perhaps one or two bites, and send the rest back untouched. 'Too salty, too bland, too tough, too soft' no matter what the equally troubled chef would prepare, nothng was to her likng.
One day the troubled cook overheard that one of the merchants would be bringng in ayu of such fine quality, that even a novice chef could make a dish fit for an Emperor. And so, in the hopes of finally pleasing his troublesome patron, he sent his swiftess, most clever servant to the market to purchase said ayu.
It was a busy marketday, and there were four fish merchants, each busy in the process of turning fish into rice. There was a sour, hatchet faced old woman, a younger woman with a gentle smle, an ancent merchant with a long flowing beard, and a younger man with an open, hard-working demeanor. Each merchant had a long line, so long that to stand in line for one, was to risk the others all running out of their finest fish, let alone the ayu that only one of them possessed. The swift and clever servant considered her options.....
In line,
Soshi-ke no kaishin Miura Eiji
In a land not so far from here, there was a troublesome noble with an incredibly refined pallette. Everyday she would receive meals, take perhaps one or two bites, and send the rest back untouched. 'Too salty, too bland, too tough, too soft' no matter what the equally troubled chef would prepare, nothng was to her likng.
One day the troubled cook overheard that one of the merchants would be bringng in ayu of such fine quality, that even a novice chef could make a dish fit for an Emperor. And so, in the hopes of finally pleasing his troublesome patron, he sent his swiftess, most clever servant to the market to purchase said ayu.
It was a busy marketday, and there were four fish merchants, each busy in the process of turning fish into rice. There was a sour, hatchet faced old woman, a younger woman with a gentle smle, an ancent merchant with a long flowing beard, and a younger man with an open, hard-working demeanor. Each merchant had a long line, so long that to stand in line for one, was to risk the others all running out of their finest fish, let alone the ayu that only one of them possessed. The swift and clever servant considered her options.....
In line,
Soshi-ke no kaishin Miura Eiji