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244 SING-IRANICA
but is an entirely different plant, with small, deeply-lobed leaves, copiously villose beneath. Ebi-kadzura is mentioned again in the
Wamyô-ruiju.ô M 0 (compiled during the period 923-931,
first edited in 1617), which gives budô as the fruit of .ikwatsu or Vitis coignetiael, as growing wild in northern Japan.
"These three plants are apparently mixed up in early Japanese literature, as pointed out by Arai Kimiyosi.2 Describing budô as a food plant, the Honiô .okukan * " it3 mentions that the fruit was not greatly appreciated in ancient times; for this reason no mention was made of it in the Imperial chronicles, nor has any appropriate Japanese term been coined to designate the vine-grape proper.
"In the principal vine-grape district of Japan, Yamanasi-ken (previously called Kai Province), were found a few old records, an account of which is given in Viscount Y. Fukuba's excellent discourse on Pomology.4 An article on the same subject was published by J. DAUTREMER.5 This relates to a tradition regarding the accidental discovery by a villager, Amenomiya Kageyu (not two persons), of the vine-grape in 1186 (Dautremer erroneously makes it 1195) at the mountain of Kamiiwasaki 1. A 7, not far from Kbfu 43 îff. Its cultivation must have followed soon afterward, for in 1197 a few choice fruits were presented to the gagun Yoritomo (1147-99) . At the time of Takeda Harunobu (1521-73) a sword was presented to the Amenomiya family as a reward for excellent fruits which they presented to the Lord. Viscount Fukuba saw the original document relative to the official presentation of the sword, and bearing the date 1549.6 The descendants of this historical grape-vine are still thriving in the same locality around the original grove, widely recognized among horticulturists as a true Vitis vinifera. According to a later publication of Fukuba,7 there is but one variety of it. Several introductions of Vitis vinifera took place in the early Meiji period (beginning 1868) from Europe and America.
"The following species of Vitis are mentioned in Umemura's work
Inogokukwai-no-gokubutsu-gift): A I as as being edible:
1 MATSUMURA, Shokubutsu Mei-i, p. 380.
2 Toga it (completed in 1719), ed. 1906, p. 272.
3 Ch. 4, p. 5o (ed. of 1698).
4 Kwaju engei-ron A IN[ 4, privately published in 1892.
b Situation de la vigne dans l'empire du Japon, Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XIV, 1886, pp. 176-185.
ô Fukuba, op. cit., pp. 461-462.
7 Kwaju saibai jen.o A etf 41* S, , Vol. IV, 1896, pp. 119-120.
8 Vol. 4, 1906.
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