Kurizaku Misono - Chestnut miso

Japanese: 栗作御薗 - くりつくりのみその

In the Middle Ages, orchards that offered chestnuts to the Emperor were particularly famous, with Tanba Sweet Chestnut Garden and Yamashiro Tawara Mikurusu. These orchards came under the jurisdiction of the Kurodo-dokoro (Kurodokoro Office), and a Mikurusu officer was appointed to each garden, and those who accompanied the chestnut offerings were called Kurikyu-onin (chestnut offerings). Every year in September of the lunar calendar, Tanba Sweet Chestnut Garden would bring one load of chestnuts in a four-legged pail, and on Gosechi (November of the lunar calendar), Tawara Mikurusu would bring 30 baskets of sweet chestnuts. The origins of this tradition are thought to lie in Sonoto, who was in charge of the propagation of fruit seeds as the Imperial Household Ministry's Garden and Pond Officer under the Ritsuryo system.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中世，天皇に栗を備進した園地で，とくに丹波甘栗御薗，山城田原御栗栖（みくるす）は有名である。蔵人所（くろうどどころ）の所管に属し，御薗には御栗栖司が補任され，備進に従う者を栗供御人といった。毎年旧暦9月には丹波甘栗御薗から四足の桶に入った栗1荷が，五節（ごせち）(旧暦11月)には田原供御所から甘栗30籠がもたらされる例であった。その源流は，令制下の宮内省園池司で樹果の種殖に従った園戸にあると考えられる。

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