The history of Makinohara tea

It was the "elite of the samurai" who cleared the barren land. The 15th Shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, will retire to Sunpu (now Shizuoka City) due to the Taisei Hokan. At that time, the samurai who belonged to the "elite corps" (later "new program") who worked as a personal guard for Yoshinobu accompanied him and moved to Sunpu together.

Due to the reversion of the print registration, the "new program" suddenly lost its mission and lost his job. To decide. It was a big decision to "become a farmer from a samurai".

The Makinohara Plateau at that time was a devastated land that even local farmers did not look at. Above all, the water shortage on the plateau was serious, and there was a shortage of water necessary for daily life as well as water for raising seedlings and replanting. Moreover, it is said that it was a series of hardships and failures at the beginning because it was an amateur group of agriculture who carried out the reclamation. In such a difficult situation, Nakajo and his colleagues are persistent and steadily cultivating.

Finally, the first tea picking will be held in Makinohara. After that, Nakajo devotes all his energy to the clearing of the tea plantation. On the way, I was invited by the Kanagawa Prefectural Ordinance (Governor), but I didn't deal with it at all, saying, "Once you go up the mountain, you can't go down the mountain no matter what. It is called Ta.

The predecessor cultivated a tea plantation in this mountain of Makinohara and started business as a bearer of traditional Makinohara tea.

With the idea of the prototype of the "Fukamushi tea" manufacturing method, the reputation of this mellow scented tea has spread throughout Japan, leading to the development of today's "Shizuoka Makinohara tea" brand.