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The Japanese sea cucumber is found along the coast of Russia, China, Japan and Korea.The range extends from Alaska and Sakhalin Island to the Amami Islands, Japan. [3] The red morphs are found on gravel beds offshore at depths of 40 metres (130 ft) or deeper while the other two colours are found intermingled on muddy and sandy bottoms at shallower depths. [3]
Folk beliefs claim the cucumber as their traditional favorite meal. [13] At festivals, offerings of cucumber are frequently made to the kappa. [15] Sometimes the kappa is said to have other favorite foods, such as the Japanese eggplant, soba (buckwheat noodles), nattō (fermented soybeans), or kabocha (Japanese pumpkin). [16]
Magnolia obovata, the Japanese cucumber tree, [1] Japanese bigleaf magnolia, or Japanese whitebark magnolia, is a species of Magnolia, native to Japan and the adjacent Kurile Islands. It grows at altitudes near sea level up to 1,800 m in mixed broadleaf forests.
There are many theories, but they all agree that kappa means the Japanese monster kappa. The following is a theory: Cucumber is a favorite food of kappa. [2] [27] The cut end of a cucumber when cut into round slices resembles the plate of a kappa's head. [28] [29] Gozu Tennō is a water deity, it is sometimes commonly referred to as the king of ...
This is a list of varieties or cultivars of cucumber, a widely cultivated vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. The cucumber vine bears edible fruit. The cucumber vine bears edible fruit. A lemon cucumber
Overexploitation of sea cucumber stocks in many parts of the world provided motivation for the development of sea cucumber aquaculture in the early 1980s. The Chinese and Japanese were the first to develop successful hatchery technology on Apostichopus japonicus, prized for its high meat content and success in commercial hatcheries. [56]
Kappamaki (河童巻き): a makizushi made of cucumber and named after the Japanese water spirit who loves cucumber [3] Konnyaku (蒟蒻): Cake made from the corm of the Konjac plant [3] Nattō (納豆): fermented soybeans [4] [1] [5] [3] Negi (ネギ): Japanese bunching onion [5] Oshinko (漬物): Takuan (pickled daikon) or other pickled ...
Included in a collection of drawings of Japanese yōkai by 17th century artist Yosa Buson is a depiction of an "oriental melon monster" (真桑瓜のばけもの, makuwauri no bakemono). [ 40 ] A sign that promotes 'the birthplace of the oriental melon' was erected at Kitagata-Makuwa Station in the city of Motosu , Japan, the site of the former ...