There is a view that this variety was born in the Tokoku district in the latter half of the Edo period (though the details aren't known) and, in or around 1893, it became a parent of general-purpose rice (but there are also different views in this regard).
江戸時代後期に東北地方（詳細不明）にて誕生し、1893（明治26）年前後に一般米の親株となったとも（複数説あり）伝えられる。