Daito rice - Daitomai

It is also called Touboshi or Toboshi. It is the name of a group of rice varieties, belonging to the Indica type, with long, thin grains and red brown rice. There was a group of varieties called Zhancheng rice that was introduced from southern China to central China in the 11th century and became popular, and some of these varieties were introduced to Japan in the 11th to 14th centuries and were called Datang rice.

Because it was early-ripening, resistant to drought and wet fields, and had a high yield, it was cultivated in newly reclaimed and poor-quality fields in various regions until around the 18th century, but records are scarce. It is no longer cultivated.

[Hoshikawa Kiyochika]

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トウボウシ、トボシともよぶ。イネの品種群の名で、インド型に属し、粒は細長く、玄米は赤色である。11世紀に中国の華南から華中に伝わって普及した占城米という品種群があったが、そのうちのいくつかが日本へ11～14世紀に伝来して大唐米とよばれた。

　早熟性で湿田または干魃(かんばつ)害に抵抗力があり多収だったので、18世紀ごろまで各地の新開田や不良田で栽培されたらしいが記録が乏しい。現在は栽培されていない。

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