(1) It was begun by Shinbe TANAKA in or around the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period, who brought back ears he had found in Uji-Yamada on his way back from a pilgrimage to Ise (Shrine) and then grew in Yoshikawa Town, Mino County, Hyogo Prefecture (Hyogo Prefecture) (the present-day Miki City).
(1)江戸時代末期から明治時代前期にかけて、田中新三郎がお伊勢参りの帰りに宇治山田で見つけた穂を持ち帰り兵庫県美嚢郡吉川町(兵庫県)（現・三木市）で栽培したことに始まる。