The wasabi cultivated at Utogi was presented to Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, who then resided at Sunpu Castle and presided over politics as Ogosho (the shogun's father who holds real power), and won his highest praise.
有東木のワサビは、駿府城で大御所政治を執っていた徳川家康に献じられその味が絶賛された。