YAYOIHIME

Yayoihime is a strawberry variety developed by Gunma Prefecture.Yayoi means March.　Hime is princess.Yayoi is popular as Japanese girls name.　There is a period called the Yayoi period in the ancient Japan, and it originated from the fact that pottery from this period was excavated from a place called Yayoi-cho (present-day Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo).　<-Many people don’t even know Japan. Yayoihime comes form girls name bacuse -hime:princess, I think.In Tochigi Prefecture, which is next to Gunma Prefecture, there is a strawberry variety called Tochiotome.　Tochiotome is the most famous strawberry variety in Japan.In west Japan, there is a brand variety comparable to “Tochiotome” called “Amaou”