It was a representative variety of sakamai of Niigata Prefecture until the beginning of the Showa period, and the record of Kanpyokai in this district at the beginning of the Showa period recorded an evaluation of Shirafuji that is feminine in comparison with Kame no o, which was masculine, but it became extinct once in the 1930s.
昭和時代初期まで新潟県の酒米として代表的な品種であり、昭和初期の同地方の鑑評会の記録には男性的な亀の尾と対比をなす女性的な白藤の評価が多く残されたが、1930年代にいったん絶滅した。