Culture“You left the shops to your mistresses?” The astonishing legend of Meiji’s “king of gyunabe” never shown in the morning drama Kaze, Kaoru

Gyunabe appears in the morning drama Kaze, Kaoru as a modest luxury. Riding the wave of the gyunabe boom, one figure became a sensation of the era. Writer and notable-person researcher Tomoyuki Mayama explains the astonishing legend surrounding this “king of Meiji gyunabe,” including the striking question of whether he entrusted his shops to his mistresses.

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TToyo Keizai★☆☆☆☆2026-07-14 23:00Original