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Drinks by Deity: Japanese

Drinks by Deity: Japanese

Art, Did An

Paperback

Series: Drinks by Deity

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ISBN13: 9798192904589
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The eight-headed serpent was not killed in a fight. It was handed eight vats of sake, one per head, and beheaded while it slept it off.

That is the oldest recorded use of a party as a weapon, and it is two entries in this book.

Fifty Japanese figures. Fifty drinks. Not one measurement anywhere in it.

That is the format, not an oversight. No ounces, no shots, no parts, no jigger and no shaker. Every drink here is built in the bottle the mixer came in: you pour some off to make room, you put things in, you put the cap back on and turn it over. Quantity is the container. You already know how to do this.

What replaces the measurement is the flavour. In a measured drink the design lives in the ratios; here it lives in which product and which variant, so every ingredient in this book names one. That is also why the spirit is written generically. It says vodka, or peach vodka, and never a brand, because in a drink carrying candy and fruit punch the bottle you bought is a price signal and not a flavour decision.

The kappa keeps its power in a dish of water on its head, and it is compelled to return a bow, so the correct defence against a river demon is politeness. It gets Bow and Spill.

Ebisu is the only one of the seven lucky gods born in Japan, and he is deaf, so during the month when every god leaves for a conference he never hears about it and stays. He gets Too Deaf to Hear.

The tsukumogami are ordinary household objects that turn into spirits on their hundredth birthday, generally annoyed. They get Service Acknowledged.

Every character gets two facing pages and nothing is continued overleaf. Who they were on the left, the drink on the right. You never turn the page in the middle of making something.

Ten of the fifty have no alcohol in them at all and nothing put in their place. They are not shoved in an appendix at the back, because they are characters. They are marked in the contents and listed together at the end for whoever is driving.

Shinto is a living religion. Amaterasu, Inari and Hachiman have shrines with people in them today, and they are treated as what they are. The yokai are folklore and are treated a good deal more freely, which is roughly how Japan treats them too.

One of eight. Norse, Greek, Eldritch, Egyptian, Aztec, Japanese, Polynesian and Mesopotamian.

Eight million gods, one of them lives in your rice cooker, and every one of them can be poured for.

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