Meanings
- A type of Japanese pickle preserved in sake lees.
Generally only cucumbers, eggplants, melons and a few other kinds are made into misozuke or narazuke.
1958, Mock Joya, Things Japanese3 more examples
The presents in money and kind from the benevolent public to the Hospital ships, Kobe Maru and Saikio Maru, were as follows: […] Narazuke (a kind of Japanese pickled vegetables): 1 Cask
1911, Japanese Bureau of Medical Affairs, Navy Department, The Surgical & Medical History of the Naval War Between Japan & Russia during 1904-1905The grand-mother in the house in Kyoto where I once lived claimed that a whiff of Nara-zuke was enough to make her drunk.
1981, Donald Keene, Travels in JapanHe is almost alcohol-intolerant and can bear only a small glass of beer or a few slices of narazuke before flushing deeply.
2000 January 3, Inoue, “Osake.....Osaka........O BAKA!”, in fj.life.in-japan (Usenet)
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