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With Chiryu being famous for “Jumbo Anmaki,” there are several stores that sell Jumbo Anmaki. We would like to explain briefly what Jumbo Anmaki is to those who do not know what kind of food this is. While Chiryu prospered during the Edo Period as one of the 53 stages of Tokaido, with cotton fairs and horse fairs, Chiryu also became famous for Jumbo Anmaki at that time. The name “Anmaki” means “wrapped sweet bean-paste” and this is how it was named thereafter.
One theory of the origin of Anmaki is that there were some wraps made from soy beans without sweet flavor in the mid Edo Period, and it is said that this was improved to become the current Anmaki. Tokaido had busy traffic in the mid Meiji Period, with many travelers, ox carts and horse carriages passing by, and Anmaki was known in various parts of the country because of passersby within a short period.
Since then, Anmaki has become well known throughout Japan. Currently, there are several types of Anmaki, such as white sweet bean-paste, granular sweet bean-paste, Tempura Anmaki, and even Cheese Anmaki. It is popular not only among those with a sweet tooth but also other people who do not necessarily have a sweet tooth.
Although it is not known when Mikawa Buddhist altars began to appear, it was in the 17th year of Genroku (1704) according to literature, and it is believed that the originator was the Buddhist altar master from the Shohachi family. The wood, which was the raw material of Buddhist altars, was easily obtained by making use of transportation by water via Yasaku River, and Japanese lacquer was obtained from the mountain range of Sarunage, north of Mikawa, so conditions were physically advantageous to the region.
Afterward, many people began operation in the vicinity of Mikawa at the end of the shogunate rule and the Meiji Period, and the current production center for Mikawa Buddhist altars was established.
The features of Mikawa Buddhist altars are a low stand, “Uneri-nageshi,” form that applies the splendor of the area where Buddha was placed in temples into ordinary households using ingenuity and precise carving to mention a few.
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