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Tokyo snapshot: Vegetable fields dotting Tokyo's Edogawa area

Tokyo snapshot: Vegetable fields dotting Tokyo's Edogawa area

Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2015, shows a vegetable field in a residential area of Tokyo's Edogawa district. The Komatsugawa area produces a leafy vegetable variety known as "komatsuna," a name given by feudal ruler Tokugawa Yoshimune during the Edo shogunate period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo snapshot: Shrine dedicated to god of leafy vegetable

Tokyo snapshot: Shrine dedicated to god of leafy vegetable

Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2015, shows Shinkoiwa Yakuyoke Katori Shrine in Tokyo's Edogawa district. The signboard in the left foreground states the shrine is dedicated to the god who created the "komatsuna" leafy vegetable variety. The chief priest is said to have served soup with the vegetable to feudal ruler Tokugawa Yoshimune in 1719 and Yoshimune named it komatsuna after the area's name, Komatsugawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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