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Masaki Aiba television program seasonal activities

Overview

The television program ‘Aiba Manabu’ features host Masaki Aiba and guests participating in various seasonal agricultural and culinary activities in Japan.

In early October, the group visited Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, to harvest seasonal pears and grapes. Following the harvest, participants worked with confectioner Akira Matsuda to create traditional Japanese wagashi and fruit-based sweets, such as pear smoothies and fruit daifuku.

Later in the month, the program focused on rice production. Due to muddy conditions caused by recent typhoons and heavy rain, the team manually harvested rice stalks with sickles. The episode covered the full production process, including threshing and milling, and concluded with a cooking competition using the fresh rice prepared on a traditional stove.

Entities

Masaki Aiba · Akira Matsuda · Eiji Kotouge · Yokohama · TV Asahi

Timeline

  1. [CULTURE] 2 sources
    Masaki Aiba harvests rice on Aiba Manabu TV program

    Masaki Aiba and guests manually harvested rice and competed in a rice-based cooking contest on the TV Asahi show ‘Aiba Manabu’.

  2. [CULTURE] 6 sources
    Masaki Aiba harvests seasonal fruit and crafts wagashi on ‘Aiba Manabu’

    On the program ‘Aiba Manabu’, Masaki Aiba and guests harvest seasonal pears and grapes in Yokohama before learning to craft traditional Japanese fruit sweets and wagashi from a professional confectioner.

Sources

thefirsttimes.jp · tvlife.jp