field radish

radishes from Higo province:

Kubota radish and Kikuchi radish I have no idea to which degree the radishes of Higo (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture) were famous, the sources I’ve discovered so far report of two radish names that were apparently cultivated: Kubota and Kikuchi. It is also interesting to see that the sources that mention Higo radishes were rather early … Read more