Shippoku
Etymology. ""Shippoku"" is a Japanese word that means "table cloth." History. "Shippoku" cuisine originated from Chinese immigrants to Nagasaki, Japan during the Edo period, which occurred from 1603 to 1868. Nagasaki was the only place in Japan where foreigners (Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese) were allowed to reside during the "centuries of seclusion." During the eighteenth century in Japan, the popularity of Chinese cuisine increased among Japanese intellectuals, and restaurants that focused upon "shippoku" and "fucha" cuisines, a vegetarian cuisine also influenced by Chinese cuisine, emerged. "Shippoku" cuisine remains a specialty of Nagasaki.