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Bundle 64: Tools for Daily Dining

When it comes to equipment for everyday dining in Japan, there are abundant choices. From saucers to soup bowls to share plates, dish designs vary. Dining tables can be so low that people must sit on cushions or tatami mats. Trays for presenting goodies vary depending on whether they're for cakes, other sweets, or tea. And chopstick styles differ according to whether they're for cooking or for a man, woman, or child. Chopstick etiquette is paramount, and the staggering number of chopstick no-nos drives home the concept of copious possibilities, so many of them wrong!
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皿
dish
JOK: 1307
Learn words for everything from segmented condiment dishes to ice cube trays. Find out how to count empty and full plates differently and to ask servers for share plates. See how corporations and nursery schools can be saucers, hear about ghostly torment associated with dishes, and learn where we keep dishes in the body. Also discover the role 皿 plays in 18 Joyo kanji.
卓
superior; table
JOK: 1553
Find out why parents would seemingly name a kid "Table"! Learn to say, "She arranged dishes on the table" and "You need to clear the table." See how a "low dining table reversal" relates to ending a negotiation abruptly. Discover the social significance of round tables. And learn to discuss excellence, as in, "Picasso is an example of an eminent painter" and "He has excellent skills."
盆
tray
JOK: 1828
Learn about everything related to 盆, ranging from bonsai to the Bon Festival, mixing in a study of trays, sugar, gambling, and basins in landforms! Investigate the Bon festival from all angles, including practical matters of timing, spiritual beliefs and practices, offerings, the origins of the observances, dancing, lanterns, bonfires, and a creepy version of Bon in Toyama Prefecture.
箸
chopsticks
JOK: 2094
Learn how chopsticks can rest and bathe—and what “pregnant chopsticks” signify. See how 箸 can serve as a stand-in for “eating.” If a human uses one end of chopsticks, find out who eats from the other end. Discover dozens of chopstick taboos, and see which ones remind people of funerals. Find out about the おてもと on chopstick wrappers, and learn why the Chinese dropped 箸.
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