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Since early modern Japan, households have used personal tray tables (zen (膳、ぜん)) for dinner, which are small short-legged tables on which dishes for one person are placed per table. This allowed individuals to freely move the tray table and eat wherever they preferred. [1] After the rise of the chabudai around 1920, the custom of commensality emerged in Japan where families have dinner together around a singular table. [1] Large dishes are placed in the middle of the chabudai to be shared, and individuals take a portion of their desired food. [1] Whereas talking while having dinner was considered disrespectful previously, conversations naturally occurred around the chabudai table, so the table manners eased to accepting dinner table talk. [2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Nobayashi, Atsushi, ed. (2022). "Making Food in Local and Global Contexts". SpringerLink. Springer Singapore: 112–113. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-1048-7. ISBN  978-981-19-1047-0.
  2. ^ "歴史の小箱 | 三島市郷土資料館". www.city.mishima.shizuoka.jp. Retrieved 2024-04-12.