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Kokutēru — Cocktail
コクテール
The first practical cocktail book by a working Japanese bartender. Maeda Yonekichi tended the Café Line in Tokyo's Yotsuya district and recorded 287 drinks in a notation — fractions of a glass — ahead of its time.
- Author
- Yonekichi Maeda
- Published
- 1924
- Edition
- 再版（カフヱ・ライン）
- Publisher
- カフヱ・ライン, 東京・四谷
- Published in
- Japan
- Written in
- Japanese
Read the original
- Host
- 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション
- Format
- Page scans; OCR access unverified
- Access
- Read free online
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Public to read via the Cultural Affairs Agency adjudication; reproduction of OCR text is a separate question.
Background
Published in 1924 — the same year as Akiyama Tokuzō's Cocktail compendium — it appeared 6 years before The Savoy Cocktail Book, yet already records roughly 30 drinks the Savoy would print.
Maeda (1897–1939) remains a partly mysterious figure; where he learned the newest London and American recipes is still uncertain. The National Diet Library digitization is publicly readable under a ruling by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs.