{{Nihongo, Chinmi, 珍味 is a Japanese term meaning literally "rare taste", but more appropriately "

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". They are local cuisines that have fallen out of popularity or those cuisines that are peculiar to a certain area. Many involve pickled

seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...

List of ''chinmi''

Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ...
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* ''Hizunamasu'' * ''Ikanankotsu'' - Cooked soft bones of

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* ''Kankai'' - Dried '' Komai'' fish. It may be eaten as is, or broiled and eaten with a sauce made by mixing

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and soy sauce and sprinkles of red pepper powder. * Kirikomi *

Matsumaezuke is a pickled dish of dried squid and kelp, native to the Matsumae, Hokkaidō area of Hokkaidō, Japan. It is made from fresh ingredients of Hokkaidō. ''Surume'' (dried squid) and konbu are wiped with wet cloth and then cut into thin strips ...

Mefun is a local delicacy from Hokkaidō, Japan. It consists of the kidney The kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped organs found in vertebrates. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are ...

* ''Saketoba'' - A smoked salmon * ''Tachikama'' *

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Tōhoku area

* ''Awabi no Kimo'' - Ground internal organs of

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* ''Donpiko'' - The heart of a salmon. As only one can be taken from a fish, it is very rare. * ''Hoya'' -

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* ''Momijizuke'' - Shreds of fresh salmons and Ikura pickled together *

Tonburi ''Bassia scoparia'' is a large annual herb in the family Amaranthaceae (''sensu lato'') native to Eurasia. It has been introduced to many parts of North America,

- A speciality of

Akita prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its ge ...

. The dried seeds of the '' hosagi'' plant.

Kanto Kantō (Japanese) Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics. In Japan Kantō may refer to: Kantō Plain Kantō region Kantō-kai, organized crime group Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...
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Ankimo is a Japanese dish made with monkfish liver. The liver is first rubbed with salt, then rinsed with sake. Then its veins are picked out and the liver is rolled into a cylinder and steamed. ''Ankimo'' is often served with ''momiji-oroshi'' ( c ...

- Either fresh or steamed liver of an Anko fish *

Kusaya is a salted, dried and fermented fish that is produced in the Izu Islands, Japan. It has a pungent smell and is similar to the fermented Swedish herring surströmming. Taste Though the smell of kusaya is strong, its taste is quite mellow. K ...

- Dried and pickled fish of Izu islands

Chūbu area

* Fugu no Ranso no Nukazuke - detoxed blowfish ovary in rice-bran * Hebo *

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Inago no Tsukudani Inago no tsukudani (いなごの佃煮) is a Japanese dish featuring rice grasshoppers that are boiled in soy sauce and sugar. ''Inago'' is the Japanese word for locust. The locusts are prepared in the " tsukudani" style of cooking (boiled in soy ...

Konowata , is a food in Japanese cuisine made from various marine animals that consists of small pieces of meat in a brown viscous paste of the animal's heavily Table salt, salted, fermentation (food), fermented viscera. The raw viscera are mixed with a ...

* Kuchiko * Kurozukuri * Zazamushi

Kinki The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshu, Honshū. The region includes the Prefectures of Japan, prefectures of Nara Prefecture, Nara, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto, Osaka Prefectur ...
area

Daitokuji Natto Daitokuji may refer to: * Daitoku-ji is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The "mountain name" ('' sangō'') by which it is known is . The Daito ...

Funazushi The history of began with paddy fields, where fish was fermented with vinegar, salt and rice, after which the rice was discarded. The earliest form of the dish, today referred to as , was created in Japan around the Yayoi period (early Neolithic ...

* Kinzanji Miso

Chūgoku area

* Hiroshimana

Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ...
area

Chorogi ''Stachys affinis'', commonly called crosne, Chinese artichoke, Japanese artichoke, knotroot, or artichoke betony, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae, originating from China. Its rhizome is a root vegetable that can be e ...

* Katsuo no Heso *

Shuto Shuto or variants may refer to: *A knifehand strike, known in Japanese as ''shutō-uchi'' *Shutō (seafood), Japanese tuna liver seafood pickle *Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路, Shuto Kōsoku-dōro) network of toll expressways *Šuto Orizari M ...

Dorome ''Dorome'' are a local specialty of Kōchi Prefecture in Japan. In the Tosa dialect, ''dorome'' refers to sardine fry 2–3 cm in length. They are eaten fresh, dipped in a sauce made from minced garlic greens, vinegar and ''miso''. It is o ...

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
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* Ganzuke (

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) * Karashi

Mentaiko Pollock roe, also pollack roe (also known as ''myeongnan'' and ''tarako'') is the roe of Alaska pollock (''Gadus chalcogrammus'') which, despite its name, is a species of cod. Salted pollock roe is a popular culinary ingredient in Korean, Japanese ...

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Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancie ...

) * Karashi Renkon (

Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,000, ...

) *

Karasumi Karasumi is a food product made by salting mullet roe pouch and drying it in sunlight. A theory suggests that it got its name from its resemblance to the blocks of ''sumi'' (inkstick) imported from China (''Kara'') for use in Japanese calligraph ...

(

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...

) * Okyuto (

)

Okinawa is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi). Naha is the capital and largest city ...
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* Tofuyo *

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- A type of edible seaweed with tiny seeds that hang from its stems

List of ''chinmi''

Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ... area

Tōhoku area

Kanto Kantō (Japanese) Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics. In Japan Kantō may refer to: *Kantō Plain *Kantō region *Kantō-kai, organized crime group *Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ... area

Chūbu area

Kinki The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshu, Honshū. The region includes the Prefectures of Japan, prefectures of Nara Prefecture, Nara, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto, Osaka Prefectur ... area

Chūgoku area

Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ... area

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ... area