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title: Wild boar hot pot over the hearth
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journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/hamamatsu/
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# Wild boar hot pot over the hearth

Cook the local flavors once more　/　Hamamatsu, Shizuoka

Most of Hamamatsu's Tenryu Ward is forest, and the Tenryu Gibier Fes, a festival of wild game, is held in Futamata (its fifth edition was in May 2025). Misakubo, the town the village belongs to, is a mountain-valley town that is 96 percent forest. I hung an iron pot from the hearth's pot hook and simmered thin slices of boar with onion, enoki and shirataki.

## Ingredients

- Wild boar (thinly sliced)
- Onion
- Enoki mushrooms
- Shirataki noodles
- Broth

## How I made it

1. Get the hearth coals going and hang the iron pot from the hook
2. Add the boar and vegetables to the broth and simmer
3. When cooked, ladle it out by the hearth

## This moment in the journey: Boar hot pot and yamame over the hearth

Dinner would be cooked over the hearth. I lit charcoal in a clay brazier and carried it, brazier and all, into the hearth room. The coals glowed red on the ash, and the iron trivet warmed up. In the old days, people kept the house fire going and treated it with care.

Obvious as it is, life is hard without fire. Sitting before the hearth, I felt that again. I ran a bamboo skewer through each yamame from the mouth, salted them, and stood the skewers in the ash. This is the thing I had always wanted to try.

An iron pot hung from the pot hook: wild boar hot pot, with thin slices of boar, onion, enoki mushrooms and shirataki noodles. It bubbled away, and the boar hot pot was ready. I poured a beer into a glass mug, and dinner by the hearth began.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who longs for fish on a skewer. The radiant heat of the charcoal crisps the skin and leaves the flesh fluffy and delicious. Picking at the pot, I watched the fire. I love the hearth.

![The pot of wild boar, onion, enoki and shirataki](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/hamamatsu/s95-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp/documents/167409/0902.pdf
- Sources: https://www.misakubo.net/%E6%B0%B4%E7%AA%AA%E7%94%BA%E7%B4%B9%E4%BB%8B/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/hamamatsu/