#3 The Myouren Temple and the Monastic Cuisine

Ichiriーn!

It has gotten a little late but let's make the preparations for lunch.

Aah... Understood.

Yoー!

Oh! An Oni, how peculiar.

Have you come to piously undertake the teachings?

That doesn't sound very appealing.

Anyway, I wouldn't come to such a sanctimonious place on my own.

Oh! Is that person carrying hannyatou※?

※ Secret word for sake used in temples.

I though this stuff was useless to a place so caught up in religious crap?

Not at all! Back in the day there was a huge temple in Nanto where they made sake everywhere.

I also had a storehouse before my sister forbade it.

※ Nanto = in the vicinity of Nara

Oh... The scent of Ginjoshu.A type of sake brewed at low temperature from rice milled to 60%