Antedating of umami

[Benjamin Barrett]

The OED has 1979 for the earliest appearance of umami. I found what appears to be a 1969 citation. The actual citation is pieced together from two Google pages.

Japanese psychological research, Volumes 11-14, Nihon Shinri Gakkai, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, page 149 (http://ow.ly/7FXLs, http://ow.ly/7FXMG)

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Yoshida (1963) studied the nature of 1 Formaly maiden name; Sachiko Ishii tastetetrahedron, by multidimensional scaling, especially with regard to the place of complex taste of umami (delicious taste) or shibumi (astringent taste) among the classical four fundamental tastes.
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Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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