Season 8, Episode 9 - We Believed Ourselves To Be a Powerful Culture (Patreon)

This week, MSB covers Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Episode 9 - ソロモンの悪夢 / Nightmare of Solomon. A countdown looms, an Admiral was outmaneuvered weeks ago, a place with a dark history has a new name inspired by food, and it’s not just the moon that’s haunted.

Show Notes

• English and Japanese Wikipedia pages for konpeitō/金平糖.
• Explanation of Onshi no Konpeitō (恩賜の金平糖) or Onshikonpeitō (恩賜金平糖) - the beautifully decorated candy-boxes full of konpeitō, given as gifts by the Emperor.
• An article about the ボンボニエール (bonbonnière) used for Onshi no Konpeitō, complete with pictures of some beautiful examples (Japanese).
• A Japanese travel-blogging couple (one of whom is a pâtissier), compare Japanese konpeitō on Portuguese confeito (includes pictures).
• Books I consulted:
  
  Hosking, Richard. “Konpeito.” A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients & Culture, Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, VT, 2015, p. 84. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofjapa00hosk/page/52/mode/2up.
  
  Ishige, Naomichi. The History and Culture of Japanese Food. Routledge, 2014.
  
  Rath, Eric C. Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2010.
  
• Website for Ryokujuan Shimizu - the famous konpeitō-making confectioner in Kyoto (information about konpeitō and about the shop, plus pictures and videos, Japanese only), and an article from The Kyoto Project about konpeitō generally and about Ryokujuan Shimizu (in English).
• Pictures of konpeitō-making process from another Japanese confectioner, Ebisudo Seika. Shows how the candies form over multiple days.

The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.

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