Product Summary (Registration No.72)

Registration No.72 こおげ花御所柿

Registered name (Transcription) : こおげ花御所柿（Koge Hanagoshogaki）, Koge Hanagoshogaki
Reference information : Koge Hanagosho Kaki

Category of product

Class 3 : Fruit (Japanese persimmon)

Production Area

Yazu Town in Yazu County, Tottori Prefecture

Registered Group

Tottori Inaba Agricultural Cooperative

Characteristics

Koge Hanagoshogaki is a kaki (Japanese persimmon) used a native variety “Hanagoshogaki”  which has been cultivated in former Koge Town since more than 200 years ago. Compared to other Kaki,  Koge Hanagoshogaki is sweet, fine-textured and juicy.Its average sugar content is 17 degrees or higher. It is highly evaluated so that it won the first prize in kaki category at the first post- war national fruit exhibition and competition held in 1947. 

Link with the Production Area

It is said that the origin of Koge Hanagoshogaki is Goshogaki brought from Nara Prefecture in about 1780. Koge Hanagoshogaki has been cultivated since more than 200 years ago. Dr.Onda at the Horticultural Experiment Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry named it “Hanagoshogaki” in 1909.  From 1969, the producers’ group branded it under the name of  “Koge Hanagoshogaki”.