2021 Course Information
◆ Schedule: Every Friday (the first month is closed in a month with 5 weeks)
16:00 Check-in welcome drink
16: 00 ~ 17: 00 Lecture (Talk about the food culture and regimen of Asian agricultural people)
17: 00 ~ 19: 00 Yakuzen class (dinner)
Next day 8: 30-Breakfast
9: 30 ~ 11: 00 Seasonal handicraft WS
11:00 Check out
◆ Fee: 10,000 yen (medicine class, seasonal handicraft WS, 1 night with 2 meals)
◆ Schedule: April-November Every Friday
◆ Number of people: 4 (women only)
◆ Venue: Satoyama Bunko (197-1 Joganjicho, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture)
15 minutes walk from JR Nagara Station, 3 minutes walk from Nara Kotsu Bus "Naruganji"
April 9, 16, 23, 30 Qingming and grain rain
Lecture: Spring cure and allowance
Yakuzen class: Spring cabbage rice, steamed white fish, veggie dumplings
Seasonal handicraft: Processed mugwort
May 7, 14, 21, 28 Lixia, Xiaoman
Lecture: Tea and medicinal food
Medicinal food class: tea porridge, stir-fried shrimp with green tea, tea eggs
Seasonal handicraft: wild grass natto
June 4, 11, 18, 25 Mangzhong / Summer Solstice
Lecture: Taiwan Fermentation Culture
Medicinal food class: Coix rice, fermented takana hamburger steak, bamboo shoot soup
Seasonal handicraft: Taiwanese tea plum
July 9, 16, 23, 30 days Small and hot
Lecture: Summer cure and allowance
Yakuzen class: Hainan rice, golden daylily soup, almond tofu
Seasonal handicraft: enzyme syrup
August 6, 13, 20, 27 Liqiu / Chushu
Lecture: Fermentation and medicinal food
Medicinal food class: Minced pork rice, bitter gourd and pineapple soup, stir-fried douchi
Seasonal handicraft: pickled in pineapple
September 3, 10, 17, 24 Bailu / Autumn equinox
Lecture: Autumn curing and allowance
Yakuzen class: lotus leaf rice, roasted chicken, tofu yo kimchi, mapo tofu
Seasonal handicrafts: Doubanjiang and Douchiang
October 8, 15, 22, 29 Cold dew and frost
Lecture: Chinese veggie and soup stock
Yakuzen class: Ginkgo rice, veggie lion head, pickled Chinese cabbage
Seasonal handicrafts: persimmon vinegar, dried persimmon
November 5, 12, 19, 26 Lidong / light snow
Lecture: Winter Curing and Allowance
Yakuzen Class: Okowa, Yakuzen Nabe, Yoppari Chicken Roll
Seasonal handicraft: Kumquat sauce
* Schedule is planned. It may change depending on the seasonal materials available at that time.
(If you have a particularly strong request, please contact us)
* You can also take seasonal handicrafts online. We are recruiting about a month ago.