
A type of turtle that lives in rivers, lakes, and swamps. It inhabits rivers throughout Japan, except Hokkaido, the Korean Peninsula, China, and the eastern Indochina Peninsula. It has a soft, flat shell about 20-40cm in length. The edible history is old, and it is said that there was even a government office that … Read More

any fern of the genus Osmund: large ferns with creeping rhizomes. Eats shoots in Japan. One of the typical wild plants that makes you feel spring. It grows naturally in the mountains of Japan, and the young shoots picked in early spring are edible. In general, dried Osmund, which is a dried boiled product, … Read More

It is also a must to have “one bowl of soup and one side dish” with a typical meal. Japan calls ‘Ichiju issai’. “Ichiju issai” was originally used to mean “simple meal (coarse meal)” with only one side dish, but westernization of eating habits, overeating (overnutrition), and obesity tendency. In recent years, when the … Read More