🍱 Seida no tamaji

Seida no tamashi" is a local dish handed down from generation to generation in the Yuzurihara area of Uenohara City. It is made by boiling small potatoes with their skin on with miso paste. In the late Edo period, Nakai Seidayu, a deputy governor of Kofu, brought potatoes from Kyushu and gave them to villagers to grow, saving them from a severe famine. Nakai Seitao is enshrined as "Imo Daimyojin," and a monument to him remains at Ryusenji Temple in Uenohara City. Tamaji" means small potatoes, and it is a local dish born from the wisdom of our ancestors who made it possible to eat even the smallest of potatoes without wasting them.