
Lifestyle Sep 5, 2015
Feast from the forest: foraging for edible plants in Japan
by John Spiri
In the opening poem of "Kokin Wakashu" ("Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times"), the Emperor writes about harvesting sansai (wild plants). The emperors of the Heian and Nara periods made it a rule to seek sansai in the forests in order ...