About the author
Tao Yun is an author about whom little public information is available, and the verifiable clues at present come mainly from three works under this name. From The Birth of the Izakaya and Eating Across Edo with Four Mouths to A Hundred-Year Life, the subjects span two categories, culture and health: the former mostly revolve around Japanese food culture, focusing on the formation of the izakaya as an everyday urban space and on how the foodways of Edo appeared in daily life; the latter turns to health and longevity, close to the concerns of ordinary readers. Overall, Tao Yun's writing tends toward popular, accessible presentation for a general audience, apt to approach larger cultural or health topics through concrete scenes of daily life and food details, in a plain and readable style. Because information such as dates of birth and death, nationality, education, and professional experience is not clearly recorded, a detailed personal biography cannot yet be given, and readers' understanding still rests mainly on the works themselves.
Written (3)
Rating 3.8★ The Hundred-Year Life 和田秀树 / 陶芸 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 The author of this book is Hideki Wada, a Japanese geriatric psychiatrist with 35 years of clinical experience. He calls people over 80 "lucky agers" … Rating 4.0★ The Birth of the Izakaya 饭野亮一 / 王晓婷 / 陶芸 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 This book is the representative work of Ryoichi Iino, a researcher of Japanese food culture history. More than two hundred years ago in Edo, izakaya s… Rating 3.9★ Four Mouths Eat Their Way Through Edo 饭野亮一 / 田蕊 / 陶芸 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 Four Bites Through Edo is the representative work of Ryōichi Iino, an expert in Japanese food culture studies. Sushi, tempura, soba, and eel—hailed as…Publishers
Shanghai People's Publishing HouseHainan Publishing House