🍱 Gawa

Shizuoka Prefecture boasts one of the largest catches of bonito in Japan. The bonito landed in May is called "Hatsukatsuo" (first bonito) and is especially popular, and the "bonito streamers" displayed around Omaezaki Port on the occasion of Dragon Boat Festival have become a summer tradition. Gawa" is a chilled miso soup made by chopping raw bonito, cucumbers, pickled plums, green perilla, etc., and adding them to water with miso paste, and was first made by fishermen on board their boats when they went bonito fishing. It is said that the name "gawa" came about because of the "gawa-gawa" sound made when ice is added and the miso is stirred to dissolve it. Originally a fisherman's meal, it also appears on summer tables in ordinary households in Omaezaki.Source: Shizuoka Prefecture's official website