[Today's Lisa Zate Topic] Today's Japan News; From Olive in 1870
It is said that the first fruit was harvested from a 150-year-old olive tree in Kobe. Speaking of 150 years, 1870, Japan was just in the Meiji era, by the way, in the 3rd year of the Meiji era, Dentsu(train) opened between Tokyo and Yokohama in January, and the subway opened in NY in February. In NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded, and in June, an incident (Gogo-jihen) occurred in Japan, also known as the Inada riot. As a result of a serious incident involving the attribution of Awaji Island, it was eventually transferred from Tokushima Prefecture to Hyogo Prefecture. It was also this year that Christmas was a consecutive holiday in the United States. In September, Napoleon III was deposed, and the French Third Republic was established instead. This time, a telegraph is opened between Osaka and Kobe. The first English school in Japan opened this month. Rome became the capital of Italy in October. That year
By the way, here in NZ, there is a culture of burying the placenta, etc., which had been protecting the child after it was born, under a new tree. This means that as the tree grows, it overlaps with the growth of its own child, and at the same time, the placenta (placenta) is said to have nutritional benefits in the roots of tree planting. In fact, I also have the experience of growing only the placenta tree out of the three that I planted.
Olive is originally called ULIVO in Italian and Olive tree in English. Needless to say, olives are used in oil, food and feed. In the Edo period, the Meiji government planted many olive trees to create a garden of 3,000 tsubo（9917.4㎡）in Kobe, and in 1882, a person from the Satsuma domain who was studying in France brought back many plants to produce olive oil. It is said that it was.
When talking about olives, I can't stop thinking about it even in the afternoon with a glass of wine.
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