Japanese citrus
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japanese-citrus-161-13887849
title:
Japanese citrus
text:
Tokoyo no kuni The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, compiled in the 700s, were the first books in Japan to describe citrus fruits. The Nihon Shoki states that a man named Tajimamori brought back citrus fruits from the Tokoyo no kuni on the orders of Emperor Suinin, which is thought to refer to the tachibana orange that grows wild in Japan. The Man'yōshū, a collection of poems from the same period, contains many poems about tachibana orange, and because of its strong acidity at the time, it was dried and
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Citrus fruit and plant
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_citrus
date created:
2007-11-26T18:57:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T11:11:00Z
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fields total:
13
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