Duck Prepared in Kaga Style

My mother learned to make this dish while we lived in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, a region known as Kaga during the Tokugawa shogunate (1600 to 1868). The city is often called Little Kyoto, because it is one of the most culturally refined and sophisticated cities in Japan, second only to Kyoto, the acknowledged center of Japanese culture. Over the centuries, Kanazawa’s proximity to the Korean Peninsula and China has enriched the city’s cuisine and led to the creation of many new dis