It has been grown as an excellent sakamai with large shinpaku manifestation rate in western Japan and the Korean Peninsula, and upon the occasion of Emperor Showa's enthronement it was used for the presentation of rice.
心白発現率が大きく優秀な酒米として西日本一帯や朝鮮半島で栽培され、昭和天皇即位の時には献穀米となった。