{"id":139956,"date":"2021-04-07T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139956&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-07T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T01:50:07","slug":"kumamoto-spring-matsutake-mushrooms-fetches-a-million-yen-per-kilo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-spring-matsutake-mushrooms-fetches-a-million-yen-per-kilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto Spring Matsutake Mushrooms Fetches a Million Yen per Kilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first spring-<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">matsutake<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> auction in Japan was held in Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and three mushrooms were so<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ld for \u00a51 million per kilogram. On<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Apr. 5, the earliest harvest of spring-<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">matsutake<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mushrooms were sold to a local convenience store owner, Michihide Hama, at the local vegetable market. It is said that the locations of the spring-<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">matsutake<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are kept secret even between parents and their children. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.jp\/nnn\/news100ak0dv19em10zzewj.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News 24<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tku.co.jp\/news\/?news_id=20210405-00000011\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TKU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139957\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kumamoto-matsutake.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kumamoto-matsutake.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kumamoto-matsutake.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kumamoto-matsutake.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kumamoto-matsutake.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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On Apr. 5, the earliest harvest of spring-matsutake mushrooms were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":139957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-139956","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/139956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}