Red Noba

Once upon a time, Noba village was a lonely village with few people. The thicket forest spread, and people lived by making vegetables mainly in the fields.
The children in the village were always fine, and when the sun came home, they were all black.
"Today, I found a rabbit. I'm sorry."
"I thought I would do it with a scissors, but I ran away again."
"They are very fast, when you enter the rabbit valley,"
Rabbit Valley is a valley where rabbits are called.
The children also provided plenty of help with the house. Above all, the younger brother of this house, for some reason, goes out to the field. Because the red eggplant was growing.
When there weren't many foreigners in Japan yet, many foreigners came in from the port of Yokohama and came to live there.
And it was decided to make vegetables essential for Western cuisine as well.
While working in the field, the youngest brother was enthralled by the rare red-nas. I can't imagine what kind of taste it is.
The red-nas turn red from green to day by day. But my father and mother didn't feed it because it was an important crop to buy in Chinatown.

Agricultural area in Noba

Other Western vegetables were also made, but what I wanted to know most was the taste of red nas.
One day, at last, I pulled out the red nas hanging heavily, and Gapuri ...
"Wow,"
The mouth was filled with green juice. He spouted in a hurry, but as if his throat and in the back of his nose.
The two brothers, who were secretly watching his younger brother, smiled, saying, "I did it."
Did your brother be surprised at the first taste? Not only this brother, but also his two brothers, of course, no one had ever bitten it, would never try to eat again.
It was when most people in Japan did not know tomatoes yet. The people of Noba village once tasted the tomato, which was called "rednas".

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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