In this paper, the beast, chicken and egg types as food during the Edo period were evaluated. Our results are summarized as follows:
1) The habit was used to eat salted whale meat in the juice from December in Edo period.
2) Deer meat and seal meat were made dry and were salted foods.
3) The meats of whales and birds were salted foods, and were kept in one year. And then they were used as special event foods.
4) The meat ball and soup were used with rice and vegetables, and used as a side dish.
5) Wild boar meat and deer meat were cooked in their juice in a pot in winter time as “Botan Nabe” (boiled boar food) and “Momizi Nabe” (boiled deer meat food) .
6) As for eating roasted meat, a person in Edo period ate dog, rabbit, otter, deer, etc. They also ate boiled swan and crane chicken.
7) “Senba cooking” (fisherman cooked food) and roast bird were also ate by the general population.
8) Eggs were used rice, called rice gruel, the porridge of rice and vegetables etc. It was used for dishes with juices, cooked food and steamed and broiled foods.