Hiyori News Update "The Story of Sanuki's Wasanbon"
Once upon a time, during the Edo period, Japan was in a state of isolation, and sweet white sugar was hard to come by and very expensive.
The Tokugawa clan then implemented a policy to domestically produce sugar and encouraged sugar production throughout the country, and efforts began in Kagawa Prefecture to somehow produce sugar.
However, there was no sugar cane to make sugar.
This story centers around two characters: Mukaiyama Shukei, a doctor from Sanuki, and Seki Ryosuke, who came on the pilgrimage from Amami Oshima.
The Hiyori staff will bring you information that you normally wouldn't get to hear about, as well as what goes on behind the scenes at the site.
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