bean-sauce

Updated: June 8, 2025

But such vetoes were never effectually enforced. Salt, bean-sauce, and vinegar were used for seasoning. Very little is known of the marriage ceremony in old Japan. But for the rest, history is silent, and it is impossible to fix the epoch when a set ceremonial began to be observed. As to funerals, there is fuller but not complete information.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era