Jūbako
are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan. The boxes are often used to hold ''osechi'', foods traditional to the Japanese New Year, or to hold takeaway lunches, or bento. A or , is a picnic set of ''jūbako'' in a carrier with handle. There is also , a kind of chinese styled bowl, some stackable like ''jūbako''. Gallery File:誰ヶ袖蒔絵重箱-Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with “Whose Sleeves?” (Tagasode) Design MET DP704176.jpg, An 18th century wood, gold and silver foil ''jūbako'' File:菊唐草葵紋蒔絵提重-Portable Picnic Set (sagejū) with Chrysanthemums, Foliage Scroll, and Tokugawa Family Crest MET DP154362.jpg, Sagejū File:Round food box on high foot ring (jikiro) with design of peonies, Ryukyu Islands, 16th-17th century AD, red and black lacquer with chinkin on wood - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC02082.JPG, Jikirō See also *Tiffin carrier: tiered lunchbox of India and the Caribbean References External links

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Osechi
(御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. are easily recognizable by their special boxes called '' jūbako'' (重箱), which resemble '' bentō'' boxes. Like ''bentō'' boxes, ''jūbako'' are often kept stacked before and after use. However not all parts of Japan, such as Suzu in Ishikawa, practice the custom of eating ''osechi''. Osechi is a food eaten to wish the family good health for the year, and the various dishes that make up osechi have their own roles to bring good luck in terms of longevity, prosperity of descendants, bountiful harvest, success in life, and financial success. Originally, osechi was rice served high in a bowl to celebrate the five annual ceremonies ('' gosekku'') from the Nara (610-794) to Kamakura periods (1185-1333). Osechi is influenced by the ritual of '' naorai'' (also known as ''kyōshoku''), in which a person who prays eats with the Shinto ''kami''. The old custom of offering osechi to the '' toshigam ...
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Bento
A is a Japanese-style single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch, typically including rice and packaged in a box with a lid (often a segmented box with different parts of the meal placed in different sections). Outside Japan, similar meals are common in other East and Southeast Asian culinary styles, especially within Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, Taiwanese cuisines and more, as rice is a common staple food in the region. The term ''bento'' is derived from the Chinese term ''biandang'' (, ), which means "convenient" or "convenience". A traditional ''bento'' typically includes rice or noodles with fish or some other meat, often with pickled and cooked vegetables in a box."Bento: Changing New York's Lunch Culture," ''Chopsticks NY,'' vol. 27, July 2009, p. 10-11. Containers range from mass-produced disposable containers to hand-crafted lacquerware. Dividers are often used to separate ingredients or dishes, especially those with strong flavors, to avoi ...
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Japanese New Year
The is an annual festival that takes place in Japan. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, . Prior to 1872, traditional events of the Japanese New Year were celebrated on the first day of the year on the modern Tenpō calendar, the last official lunisolar calendar. History Prior to the Meiji period, the date of the Japanese New Year had been based on Japanese versions of lunisolar calendar (the last of which was the Tenpō calendar) and, prior to Jōkyō calendar, the Chinese version. However, in 1873, five years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar and the first day of January became the official and cultural New Year's Day in Japan. Traditional food The Japanese eat a selection of dishes during the New Year celebration called , typically shortened to ''osechi.'' Many of these dishes are sweet, sour, or dried, so they can be kept without refrigeration: th ...
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Tiffin Carrier
Tiffin carriers or dabbas are a kind of lunch box used widely in Asia and the Caribbean for tiffin meals. From India, they spread to Malaysia and Singapore and to Trinidad and Tobago. In the Indian city of Mumbai, there is a complex and efficient delivery system that regularly delivers hot lunches packed in ''dabbas'' to city office workers from their suburban homes or from a caterer. It uses delivery workers known as ''dabbawalas''. The book ''Tiffin: An Untold Story'' covers 172 tiffin carriers, some over a century old. Nomenclature In Cambodia, tiffin carriers are known as ''Chan Srak'' (), in Hokkien they are called ''Uánn-tsân'' (), in Indonesian as ''rantang''; ''mangkuk tingkat'' ('tiered bowls') in Malay; while in Thai they are known as ''Pin To'' ( �pìn ˈtoː. In Arab countries they are called ''safartas'' (سفرطاس, from Turkish "sefer tası" meaning 'travel bowls'). The Hungarian word for a tiffin box is ''éthordó'' ('food carrier'). Design and mat ...
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