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Deep Fried Gyoza. Deep Fried Gyoza is a delicious and crispy Japanese dumpling dish. These dumplings are deep-fried to perfection after being filled with a flavorful mixture of ground pork, scallions, cabbage, and spices. They make an excellent appetiser or snack for any occasion.
Cloves Garlic, Ground Pork, Scallions, Sake, Cabbage, Soy Sauce, Sesame Oil, Vegetable Oil, Ginger, Cornflour. Deep Fried Gyoza is a delicious and crispy Japanese dumpling dish. These dumplings are deep-fried to perfection after being filled with a flavorful mixture of ground pork, scallions, cabbage, and spices. They make an excellent appetiser or snack for any occasion.
Gyoza Japanese Dumplings. Gyoza is a popular Japanese dumpling that is pan-fried and steamed after being filled with ground meat and vegetables. This recipe calls for a tasty pork and cabbage filling flavored with garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
In the previous info post, we went over the debate on the religious aspect of sangaku, and the fact that the absence of prayers on these tablets was more puzzling to some than the mathematics. As such, the tablets are not ema prayer tablets, but donations, which usually don't feature prayers on them. Case in point, some consecrated sake and French wine seen at Meiji-jingû in 2016.
Beyond wishing for good fortune and health, such donations serve two very worldly purposes: to contribute to the life and prestige of the shrine or temple (having a famous contributor makes the shrine famous by association), and to advertise the donor in return, as their name is on display. See this large torii at Fushimi Inari Taisha paid for by TV Asahi (テレビ朝日).
With that in mind, Meijizen's cynical comment from 1673 that sangaku aim "to celebrate the mathematical genius of their authors" may not far from the truth. The authors of sangaku are looking to gain notoriety through the publicity that the shrine or temple provides. But was the bemused Meijizen the target audience?
More on that in a couple of weeks. Below the cut is the solution to last week's problem.
The solution to the first problem (below the cut in this post) is the key. Name K, L and M the intersections of the three circles with the horizontal line. Then, by using that previous result,
Indeed, as in that problem, we can construct three right triangles, ABH, ACI and BCJ and apply Pythagoras's theorem in each.
Now, it suffices to note that KL = KM + LM, so
or, dividing by 2*squareroot(pqr), we get the desired result:
Inverting and squaring this yields the formula for r:
This gives us the means to construct this figure on paper using a compass and a marked ruler. Having chosen two radii p and q and constructed the two large circles (remember that AB=p+q) and a line tangent to both, placing M and C is done after calculating the lengths IK=CM=r and IC=KM=2*sqrt(pr).
Raccoon dog I did for the character design challenge.
Soy Bean Thick Fried Tofu Tochio. Tochio is a traditional Japanese dish made of thickly fried tofu. To give the tofu a crispy texture, a soy sauce-based marinade and cornstarch coating are used in this recipe. This dish is ideal as a side dish or as the main course for a vegetarian meal.