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  • Three-part bento timeline showing traditional lacquered Edo-period makunouchi box with meticulously arranged rice, fish, and vegetables, Meiji-era ekiben station box with regional specialties, and modern plastic school/office bento with kyaraben character rice alongside convenience store tray, illustrating thousand-year evolution of Japanese portable meal philosophy from battlefield ration to composed everyday care.
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    The Box That Traveled: A History of the Japanese Bento

    The Box That Traveled: A History of the Japanese Bento From dried rice carried into medieval battlefields to a convenience-store lunch and a rice ball shaped like a cartoon face, the bento is a thousand-year record of a single, quietly persistent idea: that a meal should be able to go with you. Almost every culture ...
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