(the) Road to the Deep East

If you believe it or not, in Japan, traditionally, unagi(eel) was eaten as a kind of magical medicine to bring human beings' virility out. (article from Bento.com)

But it's not so strange. Until Westernization began, Japanese didn't eat any animal meat for religious reason, and couldn't eat fish meat so frequently for financial reason. Most of poor peasants are eating tons of rice instead, with a little amount of vegetables in salt. Eel, which could be caught even in a ditch at that time was the precious source of vitamins and minerals.

In addition, until very recently, maybe before WW2, there was a shop called 'unagi chaya', unagi restaurant serves guests one bowl of rice bowl and grilled unagi, and one secret futon room to wait it . Too cook raw unagi, it takes a lot of time, so, the guests of those restaurants were waiting in the futon room, and... well, I don't mention details here, but you'll understand what I mean only if I say that those guests were coupless of man and woman. (sometimes it was of man and man, though). And they can recharge their stamina after 'it', eating griled eels. This is another evidence that Japanese are very efficient race.

(*By the way, this must be why one of representative movie director in 20th century, Imamura Shohei titled one of his representative work 'unagi', and use it as a motif of that film.)

Now, those kinky unagi shops have gone with modernization. And thanks to the environment destruction, unagi, especially domestic ones became very rare and precious Japanese food. But the the cult of unagi as a instant viagra is still intact.

And one strange, but beautiful story was born in one of straight ungi shop in modern days.

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There is a comic theater named Lumine Yoshimoto, ran by Yoshimoto Kogyo, the most famous and powerful management agency of comedians. And in the same block, there is an old unagi restaurant which continues for over one hundred years. And this shop was very popular among those comedians who appear in that theater.

Some may say, it is not so strange those riches comedians love to eat domestic eel in that traditional restaurant. However, the passion for this unagi restaurant from those comedians was kinda excessive. Almost everyday, a lot of famous young comedians, including authorities like Matsumoto Hitoshi , visit this shop as if to compete each other.

Why? Well, the reason was very simple; there was a beautiful waitress in this shop.

As many knows, comedians are one of most established job in this country, especially regarding girl hunting, and even a ugly person can have a date with tons of girls just because he is a comedians. I'd say, they are superior to doctors or lawyers regarding this point.

But that comedians, who could sleep with tons of beautiful girls, are attracted by this one waitress from this unagi shop. Was that a magic of eel in Japanese traditional way?

Those comedians - including the one like Matsumoto-san who earns billions of yens, tried to hit on her some how, but none of them could. Some young comedians write a love letter to her like a virgin junior high school student boy , but the waitress refused all their proposals.

And one day, this waitress disappeared from this restaurant, but nobody could know where she went to. Only the legend of waitress who attracted tons of famous comedian was left.

However, months ago, it turned out who this mysterious beauty was. She was an acress wannabe who was doing part time job at the unagi shop!!

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Her name is Matsumoto Wakana, 23 years old.
http://wakana-matsumoto.at.webry.info/

She is now appearing in a drama for kids and otakus, Kamen Rider Den-o from last March as a cute waitress of a coffee shop, and her existence was finally uncovered and known to the world. And some comedians who were stick to her might also notied that the girl was the waitress of unagi shop they loved and told this story to some writers.

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Certainly , as far as seeing her pics on her blog, she is beautiful. If there were a unagi restaurant where this girl serves me unag in yukata like this in yukata, I would go to the shop everyday, and someday may bravely confess my love in my words sophisticated by blogging. “Hey, girl, my unagi is stick as samurai sword. Don't you try my unagi?

And this story is also beautiful. A lot of young girls are conquered by ugly and boring boys who are just called comedians, but she didn't slender to anyone and defended her final fortress, and she just gone with flavor of kabayaki eel, and came back to them as a princess. I wish every Japanese youn girls were noble and intelligent like her.


Anyway, this story also gives us one hope. Sometimes, young and talented beautiful women are secretly living around us like this. When you visit a shop and see a out-of-place super beautiful person, she must be a popular actress of next generation.