Shallot (rakkyoo)

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Shallot (rakkyoo)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

rakkyoo 辣韮 (らっきょう) shallot

Allium chinense, Allium bakeri Regel



originated in China, in Japan known since the Heian period.

They are mostly eaten pickled in sweet vinegar or salt or soy sauce.
Often served as a side dish with curry rice.

They smell even stronger than Chinese chives (nira 韮).
The Chinese character for RA 辣 means: very hot (spicy) and strong.
They are good for the summer fatique, when you have no appetite. Many farmers grow a few for their own use.


A speciality from from Tottori (they grow near the sand dunes), and from Fukui.
hana rakkyoo 花辣韮, 花ラッキョウ "flower schalottes" grown over 3 years instead of 2, mostly in Fukui.
. . . CLICK here for hana rakkyoo Photos !


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kigo for all summer

rakkyoo 辣韮 (らっきょう) shallot
... rakkyoo 薤（らっきょう）、rakkyo らっきょ


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kigo for late autumn

rakkyoo no hana 辣韮の花 (らっきょうのはな)
flower of the shallot
..... 薤の花（らっきょうのはな）


Photo : Gabi Greve

They are very beautiful to look at. Some are also white.


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Worldwide use

Schalotte

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

佐久山やらつきよの花に蝶がつく　　
Sakuyama rakkyoo no hana ni choo ga tsuku

Sakuyama !
a butterfly lands
on a shalotte flower
　　
Hosomi Ayako 細見綾子
(1907 -1997)

Sakuyama is a mountain and hot spring in Tochigi, Oota.
It is famous for the ruins of Sakuyama castle.


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辣韮や千里の砂丘を埋めつくす　　
rakkyoo ya senri no sakkyuu o umetsukusu

these shallots !
they are burying ten miles
of sand dunes

Mistunori 充伯



Take a look at my trip to the
. Tottori Sand Dunes 鳥取 砂丘


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辣韮の花咲く土や農奴葬　　　　　　　　　
飯田蛇笏

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
辣韮の花に砂丘の暮色濃し　　　　　　　
景山みどり

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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Related words

***** Garlic chives (nira)


***** . VEGETABLE SAIJIKI 　


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