Product Summary (Registration No.77)

Registration No.77 東京しゃも

Registered name (Transcription) : 東京しゃも（Tokyo Shamo）
Reference information : Tokyo Shamo Chicken

Category of product

Class 2 : Fresh Meat(Chicken,Offal)

Production Area

Tokyo

Registered Group

Tokyo Shamo Producers Association

Characteristics

Tokyo Shamo chicken is characterized by its well-developed muscles, pleasantly tight flesh, and satisfying bite, a meat quality close to pure line shamo, achieved by cross-breeding selectively-bred pure line shamo with Rhode Island red, and then cross-breeding the result again with pure line shamo, thereby obtaining offspring of 75% shamo lineage.

Link with the Production Area

Tokyo Shamo is the result of selectively breeding shamo chicken raised in and around today's Tokyo since the Edo period (17C-19C). Breeding knowhow for obtaining birds with meat quality close to pure line shamo was established in 1982, and marketing commenced in 1984.