Mitsuru Kakimoto, memba na ƙungiyar masu cin ganyayyaki ta Japan ya rubuta: “Bincike da na yi a ƙasashe 80 na Yamma, da suka haɗa da Amirkawa, Birtaniya da Kanada, ya nuna cewa kusan rabinsu sun gaskata cewa cin ganyayyaki ya samo asali ne daga Indiya. Wasu masu amsa sun ba da shawarar cewa wurin haifuwar cin ganyayyaki shine China ko Japan. A gare ni babban dalili shi ne cewa cin ganyayyaki da addinin Buddha suna da alaƙa a yammacin duniya, kuma wannan ba abin mamaki ba ne. A gaskiya ma, muna da kowane dalili na tabbatar da cewa ".
Gishi-Wajin-Den, wani littafin tarihi na Japan da aka rubuta a kasar Sin a ƙarni na uku kafin haihuwar Yesu ya ce: “Ba a samun shanu a ƙasar, babu dawakai, da damisa, ba akuya, ba maguzawa a wannan ƙasar. Yanayin yana da sauƙi kuma mutane suna cin sabbin kayan lambu duka a lokacin rani da damina.” Da alama, . Sun kuma kama kifi da kifi, amma da kyar suka ci nama.
A wancan lokacin, addinin Shinto ne ke mamaye ƙasar Japan, bisa ga bautar rukunan yanayi. A cewar marubuci Steven Rosen, a farkon zamanin Shinto, mutane saboda haramcin zubar da jini.
Bayan 'yan shekaru ɗari, addinin Buddha ya zo Japan, kuma Jafanawa sun daina farauta da kamun kifi. A karni na bakwai, Empress Jito ta Japan ta karfafa sakin dabbobi daga zaman talala da kafa wuraren ajiyar yanayi inda aka hana farauta.
A shekara ta 676 miladiyya Sarkin Japan Tenmu mai mulki a lokacin ya shelanta dokar hana cin kifi da kifi da naman dabbobi da kaji.
A cikin ƙarni na 12 daga lokacin Nara zuwa Meiji Reconstruction a rabin na biyu na karni na 19, Jafanawa suna cin abinci mai cin ganyayyaki kawai. Babban abincin shine shinkafa, legumes da kayan lambu. An ba da izinin kamun kifi ne kawai a lokacin hutu. (reri yana nufin girki).
Kalmar Jafananci shojin ita ce fassarar Sanskrit na vyria, wanda ke nufin zama nagari da nisantar mugunta. Limaman addinin Buddah da suka yi karatu a kasar Sin sun kawo daga haikalinsu aikin dafa abinci tare da son kai don neman wayewa, daidai da koyarwar Buddha.
A cikin karni na 13, Dogen, wanda ya kafa ƙungiyar Soto-Zen, ya ba da . Dogen ya karanci koyarwar Zen a kasashen waje a kasar Sin a lokacin daular Song. Ya kirkiro ka'idoji don amfani da abinci mai cin ganyayyaki a matsayin hanyar haskaka hankali.
Ya yi tasiri sosai ga mutanen Japan. Abincin da aka yi a wurin bikin shayi ana kiransa Kaiseki a cikin Jafananci, wanda a zahiri yana nufin "dutsen ƙirji". Sufaye da suka yi tazarce suna danna duwatsu masu zafi a ƙirjinsu don kashe musu yunwa. Kalmar Kaiseki da kanta ta zo da ma'anar abinci mai sauƙi, kuma wannan al'adar ta yi tasiri sosai akan abincin Japan.
"Haikali na shanun da aka yanka" yana cikin Shimoda. An gina shi jim kadan bayan Japan ta bude kofofinta zuwa yamma a cikin 1850s. An gina shi ne don girmama saniya ta farko da aka kashe, wanda ke nuna karo na farko da keta dokokin addinin Buddha na hana cin nama.
A zamanin yau, Miyazawa, marubucin Jafanawa kuma mawaƙi na farkon ƙarni na 20, ya ƙirƙiri wani labari wanda ya bayyana al'adar cin ganyayyaki ta almara. Rubuce-rubucensa sun taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen inganta cin ganyayyaki. A yau, ba a cin ko da dabba ɗaya a cikin gidajen addinin Buddah na Zen, kuma ƙungiyoyin Buddha irin su Sao Dai (waɗanda suka samo asali daga Kudancin Vietnam) na iya yin alfahari.
Koyarwar addinin Buddah ba ita ce kawai dalilin ci gaban cin ganyayyaki a Japan ba. A ƙarshen karni na 19, Dr. Gensai Ishizuka ya wallafa wani littafi na ilimi wanda a cikinsa ya inganta abinci na ilimi tare da mai da hankali kan shinkafa launin ruwan kasa da kayan lambu. Ana kiran fasaharsa macrobiotics kuma ta dogara ne akan tsohuwar falsafar kasar Sin, bisa ka'idojin Yin da Yang da Doasism. Mutane da yawa sun zama mabiyan ka'idarsa na maganin rigakafi. Macrobiotics na Japan suna kira don cin shinkafa launin ruwan kasa a matsayin rabin abincin, tare da kayan lambu, wake da ciyawa.
A cikin 1923, an buga The Natural Diet of Man. Marubucin, Dr. Kellogg, ya rubuta: “. Yana cin kifi sau ɗaya ko sau biyu a wata, nama sau ɗaya kawai a shekara.” Littafin ya bayyana yadda, a shekara ta 1899, Sarkin Japan ya kafa hukumar da za ta tantance ko al’ummarsa na bukatar cin nama don ƙarfafa mutane. Hukumar ta kammala da cewa, “Jafanawa a kodayaushe sun yi nasarar yin hakan ba tare da hakan ba, kuma karfinsu, juriya da bajintar wasansu ya fi na kowane jinsin Caucasian. Babban abinci a Japan shine shinkafa.
Har ila yau, Sinawa, Siamese, Koriya da sauran al'ummomin Gabas suna bin irin wannan abincin. .
Mitsuru Kakimoto ya kammala da cewa: “Japanawa sun fara cin nama kimanin shekaru 150 da suka shige kuma a halin yanzu suna fama da cututtuka da ke haifar da yawan cin kitsen dabbobi da gubar da ake amfani da su a aikin gona. Wannan yana ƙarfafa su su nemi abinci na halitta da aminci kuma su sake komawa ga abincin gargajiya na Japan. "