For preventing summer fatigue, people in Japan eat sustaining food like grilled meat or curry rice. Especially on Doyo-no Ushi no hi, the day of the Ox in midsummer, many Japanese eat eel. *The day of the Ox changes every year.
In the mid 18th, a poor eel restaurant owner asked the multi-talented doctor Gennai Hiraga how to increase the sales. Gennai gave the advice to put the posters saying “Today is the day of the Ox!” being inspired by the legend that people don’t suffer from summer fatigue when they eat food beginning from the letter “u” in Japanese on that day. (Eel is called unagi in Japanese.)
This eel restaurant got more sales after putting poster. This story is regarded as the one of the reason to eat eel meal on the day.
Eel is expensive, but it is good chance to enjoy traditional kabayaki (charcoal-grilled eel) on this “eel day”.
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