{{Short description|Japanese pork and miso soup}} {{Infobox food | name = Tonjiru | image = 250px | caption = | alternate_name = Butajiru | country = Japan | region = | creator = | course = | type = Soup | served = | main_ingredient = Pork, vegetables, miso | variations = | calories = | other = }}
{{nihongo|'''''Tonjiru''''' or '''''butajiru'''''|豚汁|4="pork soup"}} is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Butajiru {{!}} Traditional Soup From Japan {{!}} TasteAtlas|url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/butajiru|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.tasteatlas.com}}</ref><ref name =ONE/> It is a more substantial version of miso soup, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients.
==Common ingredients== ''Tonjiru'' is usually made by stewing thinly sliced pieces of pork, alongside vegetables, in ''dashi'' stock, and flavoured by dissolving miso.<ref name =ONE>Tadashi Ono, Harris Salat. Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals (2009) 160 pag. {{ISBN|158008981X}}, {{ISBN|9781580089814}}</ref>
Common additional ingredients include burdock root, konjac, seaweed, spring onions, daikon radish, carrot, tofu including fried tofu (aburaage), tubers such as potatoes, taro or sweet potato, and mushrooms such as shiitake and shimeji.<ref name =ONE/>
On rare occasions, mildly degreased (not crispy) bacon can be used in place of pork. Instant butajiru is also available.
==Name== The Japanese kanji character for pig (豚) can be pronounced either as ''ton'' (the ''on'yomi'' way), or as ''buta'' (the ''kun'yomi'' way), resulting in two ways to say the name of the dish (豚汁), ''tonjiru'' and ''butajiru''. While ''tonjiru'' is much more common and used by most people in Japan at around 70%, ''butajiru'' is dominant in Hokkaido and Kyushu, along with a majority in the Toyama and Mie prefectures, with a small minority in most of the remaining prefectures of Western Japan.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jタウン研究所 |date=2014-02-20 |title=「とんじる」「ぶたじる」どっちが正解？ 全国調査で「国境」わかった(全文表示)｜Jタウンネット |url=https://j-town.net/2014/02/20100998.html |access-date=2026-03-14 |website=Jタウンネット |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=英介 |first=浅野 |date=2023-12-21 |title=「とんじる」「ぶたじる」あなたはどっち派？ ゼンリン作成のマップがＳＮＳで話題 |url=https://www.sankei.com/article/20231221-GOMCREJVQZGMLFUAKFF5BU33Q4/ |access-date=2026-03-14 |website=産経新聞：産経ニュース |language=ja}}</ref>
A version of the dish, containing sweet potatoes, as served to skiers in the ski resorts of Niigata Prefecture up until about 1960, is known as ''sukii-jiru'' ("skiing-soup").
== Gallery == <gallery mode="packed" widths="130px" heights="130px"> Yayoiken 20210603-10.jpg|With tofu and ''negi'' Higawari Lunch Set 20200731 01.jpg|With ''abura-age'' and ''negi'' Nakamura 20140816-01.jpg|With udon noodles Yamato Pork Cutlet by TonQ.jpg|With fried ''tonkatsu'' cutlet </gallery>
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{{Commons category|Tonjiru}} Category:Japanese soups and stews