Event of Ezo Deer Meat and Leather Karunanames, Taberumatou vol.2" (Carnames, Taberumatou) Saturday, December 7 at Space R in Daikanyama

-Taste the aged meat of Ezo sika deer with Saitama's local sake, Touching Ezo deerskin and thinking about coexistence with wild animals

2024.12.05 08:30

LEATHER TOWN SOKA Project team

LEATHER TOWN SOKA Project team/Saitama Leather Related Business Cooperative Association (Location: Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, President: Kazunori Kawai) and LEATHERECTION (Representative: Toru Hayashi), a leather brand from Kitami City, Hokkaido, will co-host the event "Karuna tanning, shokuberu matou vol.2" (Karuna tanning, shokuberu matou), an event featuring Ezo deer meat and leather, at Space R in Daikanyama on December 7, 2024. 2" (Karunamesu, Taberumatou) will be held at Space R in Daikanyama on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

イベントフライヤー

Event Flyer

Soka City and its suburbs in Saitama Prefecture is a leather production area that has been home to leather-related companies for nearly 100 years.

One of their independent projects, "U-TaaaN PROJECT by SOKA LEATHER," is to create a system whereby exterminated deer hides are tanned and returned to the local area to be used as a local resource. Deer and Ezo sika hides are sent from several regions from Hokkaido to Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and we are contracted to process them.

Among them, Toru Hayashi of Kitami City, Hokkaido, opened a deer hunting, dismantling, and cured meat production workshop in Kitami City, Hokkaido, at his own expense in 2015, after learning of the current situation in which Ezo sika deer are proliferating and the damage they cause is becoming very great. He also founded a leather brand named "LEATHERECTION. The LEATHERTOWN SOKA Project team, to which leather is entrusted, is engaged in the production of Ezo sika deer leather.

LEATHER TOWN SOKA Project team

https://soka-leather.jp/

U-TaaaN PROJECT by SOKA LEATHER

https://soka-leather.jp/projects/u-taaan-leather/

LEATHERECTION

https://leatherection.com/

Thoughts on the Event

One of Hayashi's businesses, "poro wacca" (poro wacca), sets strict standards for the acceptance of Ezo sika deer meat, and further matures it by adjusting each part of the meat to make it more delicious. In addition to online sales, this company receives orders from chefs at famous restaurants in Tokyo and ships directly from Kitami.

This act of "taking animal life, consuming meat as a source of nutrition, tanning the skin to protect the body, and making useful products for daily life" is a cycle of coexistence with wild animals that our ancestors devised and made possible over a long period of time, and should have been the basis of our lives as human beings. However, as controlled livestock farming became more and more popular, it was gradually forgotten. We wanted to think about this together and let people know that we are engaged in a series of business by handing out jobs to each other like a relay, and that if meat and leather can be sold at a fair price, hunters and processing plants can become more active, and we may be one step closer to coexistence with wild animals. With this in mind, we have decided to hold this event again, following last year's event.

ポロワッカ熟成庫

Polowakka Maturing Room

About the "Hunting, Tanning, and Shokuberu Koso vol.2

* Target audience for the event: People interested in animal damage, environmental issues, tanners, leather product manufacturers, gibier meat, and Japanese sake. People in the food and beverage industry. Those interested in gibier leather and its products.

*This will be the second year for the joint exhibition, following December 2023. Last year, a total of about 100 people visited the two-day event.

＜Comments from last year's visitors

Shoemaker: "I realized that leather, which I thought of as an industrial product, has a life of its own, and it changed my mind about my work and leather.

Deer meat was completely different from what I had imagined, with no odor and no hardness. The fact that it is high in protein and low in calories was also appealing. (Company employee)

"The sake lees soup with Ezo sika meat was delicious. I can't eat it very often, so please let me know the next time you hold this event.

This person agreed with the event, and at a subsequent event of his own company, he served Ezo sika sausage, held a talk event with online participation by Hayashi, and produced a book cover made of Ezo sika deer leather.

Event Summary

Event name: "Hunting, tanning, eating, and gathering" vol.2

Date & Time: Saturday, December 7, 2024, 12:00-19:00

Venue ： Daikanyama Space R

　　　　　　 1-35-3 Ebisu-Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan

Access ： 2 minutes walk from East Exit of Daikanyama Station on Tokyu Toyoko Line

Admission : Free

Conditions for participation: Please follow us on Instagram.

Capacity ： No set number, but there is a possibility that you may have to wait in case of congestion.

Sponsor ： LEATHER TOWN SOKA Project team and LEATHERECTION

Reservation : Not required

Details : https://www.atpress.ne.jp/releases/419370/att_419370_1.pdf

シカ肉料理例

Examples of deer meat dishes

Event Details

Deer meat is a valuable resource, even if it was exterminated. Introducing our desire and our work to reincarnate the meat as something delicious and leather as something good.

1. data on breeding Ezo sika deer, Hayashi's encounter with the Soka team and their efforts, Ezo sika deer leather, leather products, and samples will be on display (not for sale)

(2) Video clips of the hunting, dismantling, and leather production of Ezo sika deer will be on display.

3. the main part of the event

Ezo sika deer killed with one shot from the neck up without suffering. This is both the secret to its delicious taste and a sign of respect for the creatures, including the Ezo sika. You will taste Ezo sika meat, which is slowly laid down in a special aging room with controlled temperature and humidity, cooked in a variety of ways. In recognition of the relationship between Kitami City in Hokkaido and Soka City in Saitama Prefecture, we have selected several types of sake from sake breweries in Saitama Prefecture to match the deer meat. The guests will enjoy the marriage of the sake and the meat.

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