Nameshi Dengaku

Today's lunch, Nameshi Dengaku (菜めし田楽) at Kiku-So (きく宗) in Toyohashi, Japan. :)
I like it. :)



Nameshi Dengaku is a kind of Miso Dengaku.

Dengaku is a category of Japanese traditional food. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%B3%E5%99%8C%E7%94%B0%E6%A5%BD(Japanese)
Miso is soybean paste.

"Nameshi" can be decomposed into "Na" and "Meshi". Here, "Na" means leafs of Japanese radish, and "Meshi" is rice.

Thus, "Nameshi Dengaku" can be translated like "Dengaku with soybean paste and Rice with Japanese radish".

BTW, Dengaku is a kind of Japanese Festivals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengaku (English)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E6%A5%BD (Japanese)
According to the Japanese Wikipedia page above, the name comes from the festival name because skewers of (Miso) Dengaku looks like the foot gear used in Dengaku festival.