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...The main production areas are in the Kanto region, where the cultivated soil is deep, and Saitama Prefecture is particularly rich in production. [Tatsuya Hiraoka]
[cooking]
Burdock was called "kitakisu" or "umafubuki" in ancient times, and was also written as "akumitsu." The oldest burdock dish is "nishime gobo" (boiled and dyed burdock), which appears in "Teikin Orai," followed by "tataki gobo" (pounded burdock) in "Kitano Shaka Nikki" (Diary of a House of the Kitano Family).

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Umafubuki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…主産地は耕土の深い関東地方に多く，とくに埼玉県での生産が多い。【平岡 達也】
［料理］
　ゴボウは古くは〈キタキス〉〈ウマフブキ〉と呼ばれ，悪実とも書いた。ゴボウの料理としては《庭訓往来》に見える〈煮染牛房（にしめごぼう）〉あたりが古く，続いて《北野社家日記》などにたたきゴボウが出現する。…

※「ウマフブキ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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