ものづくり

Fake Food Japanese Style
That Looks Good Enough to Eat
食べたくなる日本製食品サンプル
Behind the Scenes

食品サンプルの始まりは大正時代にさかのぼる。京都で理科教育用標本を作っていた西尾惣次郎らが、1917 年（大正 6 年）に保健食（健康維持に必要十分な栄養を含む食事）の料理模型を作り上げた。また東京では人体模型技師の須藤勉が、関東大震災後の 1923 年頃に、再建された白木屋百貨店の食堂のために陳列用の模型を制作した。いずれも食品模型の制作が本職ではなかった。その後、岩崎瀧三が模型現物を入手して研究を重ね、1932 年（昭和 7 年）大阪で食品模型岩崎製作所を立ち上げた。本記事に出てくるイワサキ・ビーアイの前身である。事業成功の背景には、百貨店食堂の大衆化と料理品目の増加に伴う、座席でのメニュー確認の手間を省いた食券による前売り制度の普及があった。

Seize the Situation

036

You will hear four statements about each picture.

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1.	Fill in the blanks and select one statement that best describes what you see in thepicture.
(A)	A child is ((B)	A child is ((C) A child is ((D)	A child is () a fruit parfait.
) a variety of meals.
) plastic food replicas.
) into a showcase.
Answer :

A

B

C

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2. Select one statement that best describes what you see in the picture.

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Answer :AB

CDUnit 639

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Let’s Talk! Practice the dialogue below.

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Have you ever been to Kappabashi? It’s a popular tourist area in Tokyo.
[ It’s a famous sightseeing spot. / It’s a busy shopping street. / It’s a hot
spot in Tokyo. ]I have. It is lined with lots offood-themed stores.

Yes. They sell everything needed inrunning restaurants, but fresh food.
[ It is. / Definitely. / I know. ]Vocabulary Building A Match English words to Japanese words.
1.	complete
2.	adorn
3.	tantalize
4.	ingredient(A) じらす(B) 揃った(C) 材料、原料(D) 飾る

Paragraph Reading A
Read the sentences below and select the best answer for each question.
Question 1 and 2 refer to the first part of the article.
読解上の要点039 CD1-39★日本語が使えず、何を食べればよいのか分からない人は、レストランでどうすればいいのだろう。

★食品サンプルが陳列されていれば、観光客にとっては食べたいものを選ぶ助けとなる。

CAN’T read or speak Japanese and don’t know what to eat? Enter fake plastic food1

replicas, or shokuhin sanpuru, that make dealing with Japanese menus a piece of cake,or sushi. They may even look good enough to eat.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald anything from beer complete with suds,
tasty looking sushi or deep-fried pork cutlets can be displayed in life sized pieces,

5helping visitors make informed choices about what they want to eat:
1. What is the main purpose of fake plastic food replicas?
(A) To read or speak Japanese.
(B) To recognize menus in a visual way.
(C) To wait for a restaurant to open.

(D) To enjoy meal without waiting for a table.

2.	The phrase “life sized” in line 5 is closest in meaning to being of(A) huge size.
(B) tiny size.
(C) the same size as an original.
40(D) the same size as a person.

Question 3 and 4 refer to the second part of the article.
読解上の要点040 CD1-40★外国人観光客は、付け合わせの種類、料理の分量、安上がりかどうか、などを予測することが難しい。

★食品サンプルは、外国人観光客にとって本物の料理とまさにそっくりなものである。
★製造過程では、原寸大での型取りや見栄えの良い着色がなされる。		1 “You’re calculating lots of things ― what kind of side dishes are there, how

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big is the meal, and is it economical?” he said [Yasunobu Nose, a senior editor
at The Nikkei Business Daily].		1 “But for foreign tourists who don’t have this literacy, food samples are justsomething that closely resemble real dishes.”5		1 The modern-day alchemy involves making a plastic mold of the real-life foodand then adorning it with just the right colors to tantalize the taste buds ofpassing customers.
The plastic food is made more realistic by actually using ingredients that are chopped
and combined like they are in cooking. Here are some images of what these look like:10

p. 39, 1 and 2.
3.	What is “literacy” in line 4 replaced with?
(A) Calculating.
(B) Side dishes.
(C) Food samples.

(D) Passing.

4.	What is used for making realistic plastic food?
(A) Alchemy.
(B) Taste buds.
(C) Ingredients with cooking methods.

(D) Images of a plastic mold.

Focus on Grammar 動名詞
動名詞は、名詞的な性質（「～すること」と訳される）と動詞的な性質（目的語や補語を伴う、副詞で修飾される、完了形や受動態もある）をあわせ持っている。
例 The modern-day alchemy involves making a plastic mold of the real-life food and thenadorning it with just the right colors.（その現代の錬金術は、プラスチック製の原寸大の食べ物の鋳型を作ること、そして次にちょうどいい色でそれに美しく彩りを添えることを含んでいる。）［involve「～を含む、伴う、必要とする」が二つの動名詞（making, adorning）を目的語としている。また、それらの動名詞も動詞的機能により、目的語を伴っている。
］例 The plastic food is made more realistic by actually using ingredients.
（その食品サンプルは、材料を実際に使うことによって、より本物のように作られている。
）［動名詞 using は名詞的機能を持つため、前置詞 by に付く。また同時に動詞的機能も持つため、副詞 actually と目的語 ingredients を伴っている。
］Unit 641

Vocabulary Building B
Choose the words closest to the meaning.
1.	expand
2. glance
3.	border
4. footage(A) know(A) bite(B) gain(B) look(C) grow(C) hear(A) land(A) film(B) limit(B) paper(C) point(C) map

Paragraph Reading B041

Read the sentences below and answer each question.

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If any of the images tricked you, you’ll understand why this has become such a1competitive industry. It’s even starting to expand to other markets such as China and SouthKorea.
Iwasaki Be-I and Maiduru (Maizuru) are some of the biggest plastic food manufacturers inJapan. A glance at their websites suggests food art is starting to cross with technology with5

smartphone stands in iceberg fruit, icecream cones, seafood pizzas and rice dishes some ofthe popular new models available.
Iwasaki’s customers have included Baskin Robbins, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC,Pizza Hut and Subway so chances are you’ll have seen the benefits of Japanese food art wellbeyond Japanese borders. Today Iwasaki Images of America produces 1000 generic food

10replicas that cover beverages, bread, seafood, cake, raw and cooked meats and many otherthings that can be custom ordered on the Internet.
The AFP show some footage of how fake food is made in this video and explain thehistory behind the practice that started back in the 1920s.
Whatever you might think of the replica food industry, next time you’re in Tokyo, Kyoto,
Nagasaki or anywhere else in Japan, rest assured you won’t go hungry. Simply point at
something that looks good enough to eat, and hopefully you’ll get what you’re looking for.
by Jo Lane
(Travel Wire Asia, August 15, 2013)

Notes［9］ chances are (that) ... たぶん…だろう［12］custom order 特注する（※ custom order とも表記する）［13］AFP (Agence France-Presse) フランス通信社［16］rest assured (that) … …ということ（なの）で安心する、…なのは間違いない［16］point at … …を指差す

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Question 1 and 2 refer to the rest part of the article.
1. What are Japanese plastic food manufactures starting to produce?
(A) New smartphone models.
(B) Food smartphone stands.
(C) Their websites.

(D) Technology of manufacturing smartphones.

2.	What do the AFP show in the video?
(A) How to make food replicas.
(C) How to order food replicas.

(B) How to explain the history of food replicas.
(D) How to start back in the 1920s.

True or False: Circle T if the statement is true; otherwise circle F.
3.	T / F

The plastic food industry is competitive.

4.	T / FThe benefits of Japanese food art are seen only in Japan.

5.	T / F

You have only to point at a food replica in order to get a meal.
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Listening

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Listen to the recording and select the best response to each question.
1.	What did The Evening Times have comments about?
(A) The year 1984.
(B) Trends in Japan.
(C) Newspapers nowadays.

(D) Fake food matters.

2. Who is Harry Fujita?
(A) An employee who works for The Evening Times.
(B) The president of a company in Japan.
(C) The head of a branch office in America.
(D) A producer of plastic food.
3.	What did Mr. Fujita want to say about food?
(A) It should be examined beforehand.
(B) It should be sold in a shoe store.
(C) It shouldn’t taste like leather.

(D) It shouldn’t be touched by a customer.

Guess Right!
難易度

★★★★★

間違っているのは右？

左？

① 1990s

1990’sMarch ～ Junea two years old boy
I don’t know but ……

② March-June③ a two year old boy④ I don’t know but …

（1990 年代）
（3 月から 6 月）
（2 歳の男の子）

Unit 643Respond to Questions
Respond to questions properly.

Introduction: I magine that a foreign TV program is going to introduce Japanese unique restaurant
systems like fake food replicas. You have agreed to participate in an interview.
Q1: Who would need fake food replicas in the showcase?
A1: Not only foreign travelers but also

because.

Q2: Are the fake food replicas essential to the Japanese restaurant industry?

becauseA2:.

Q3: Describe any other unique system in the Japanese restaurant industry.
A3: I think it is.

à Listening Script

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Way back in 1984 The Evening Times commented on the emerging trend towards fake food,quoting Harry Fujita, the president of Iwasaki Images of America, who predicted plastic foodwould take America by storm.	“Why should eating in a restaurant be different than buying a pair of boots?” he asks,
apparently not referring to road-side steaks that taste like shoe leather. “Consumers
want to examine, touch, and weigh the merchandise,” he comments. “Why should foodbe different?”à Guess Right!

解説

すべて右が間違い。
① アポストロフィは不要。’90s と書くことも可能である。
②「〜」は英語では使わない記号である（「」や『』も使わない）。

③a は boy に対する冠詞で、two year old は two-year-old とも表記する複合語の形容詞である。
したがって、year に複数形の s はつけない。
④省
 略を示す場合には、“.(dot)” を３つ繋げる。文尾の省略では 4 dots “....” を用いることもある（タイプライターの時代には６個のこともあった）。

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