There were originally shogoin-kabu pickles produced by pickling in salt to ferment lactobacillus, and Tozaburo DAIKOKUYA and an imperial palace cook developed senmai-zuke in 1865 using the shogoin-kabu pickles.
もともと塩漬けして乳酸菌発酵をさせた聖護院蕪の漬物を、御所の料理人であった大黒屋藤三郎が、慶応元年（1865年）に考案したとされる。