The rain that continued to fall stopped at dawn10Month26day.
I went to Shiga Prefecture with the instructors, instructors and staff of Seishoku Cooking School, and the employees of Muso Co., Ltd., a group company.
This is to see the koji making and tea making sites.
First JRAbout 10 minutes by bus from Yasu Station, we visited Kojiya Kichiemon, who has been making koji using the same method since the Edo period.
Omi Fuji (Mt. Mikami) in front of you!
It's a very comfortable place.
We make koji from local rice, and use the koji to produce miso using local soybeans.
In addition, fermented foods such as sweet sake, salt koji, and soy sauce koji are manufactured.
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“This business, which used to be a declining industry, came into the limelight with the salt koji boom,” says Toyohiko Yamazaki, the owner of the shop.
At one point, supermarket buyers were waiting in front of the company for Shio Koji to be ready.
With the desire to let younger generations know about the appeal of fermented foods such as koji and miso, we started a miso making class.10It's been going on for years.
When I took a quick look, there were wooden barrels from the Edo period, and local customers came to buy miso.
Kojiya Kichiemon HP
Next is Omihachiman!First, take a walk.
It is the famous Hachiman moat, a townscape with historical romance.You can go on a waterside tour.
Walking slowly through the idyllic riverside towns and townscapes with wooden fences and white-walled storehouses that make you feel like you've slipped back in time, you'll feel a sense of relief.
According to biography, Himure Hachimangu Shrine is 131 years old!It seems that it was the beginning of being enshrined in.
Shiga Prefecture has a strong image of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, but I realized that it is a prefecture full of attractions where you can feel the long history and the culture and economy that have developed since ancient times because of its rich nature.
currently airingNHKThe number of tourists will increase further by becoming the stage of the morning drama and next year's Taiga drama.
