Report on the “Machi★Aso Beer Harvest Festival” where Tokushima Anime Ambassador Eriko Nakamura went to Kamiyama Town to harvest the Sudachi trees she planted herself in preparation for making “Machi★Aso Beer”
In Tokushima, where the event '
Machiaso Beer Harvest Festival will be held!
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◆Relationship between voice actor Eriko Nakamura and Tokushima
◆Machi★Asobeer Harvest Festival
In the first place, the flow of why voice actor Nakamura-san planted Sudachi trees and how he harvested the Sudachi trees is a story that can only be understood if you are familiar with Machi★Asobi to some extent, so I have summarized the details below. If you're wondering, ``Putting aside the premise, what was the Harvest Festival like?'', please skip the background and look at what happened on the day itself .
◆Relationship between voice actor Eriko Nakamura and Tokushima
In 2012, Ms. Nakamura won the Female Voice Actor Award, the Female Character Award (Haruka Amami from ``The Idolmaster''), and the Mascot Character Award (Hamzo from ``The Idolmaster'') at the New Type Anime Awards 2012 held in Machi★Asobi vol.9. We won 3 titles.
'Newtype Anime Award 2012' will be a one-on-one battle between The Idolmaster and Fate/Zero - GIGAZINE
The Newtype Anime Award is an event held by the anime magazine 'Newtype' to award the best anime of the year in multiple categories.It was originally held in the magazine, but
Starting in 2012, which was the second real event, handprint reliefs were made to commemorate the award, and in March 2013, handprints were taken at 'Petit★Asobi vol.1,' which was held for the first time as a small spring event. , Mr. Nakamura also participated.
Eriko Nakamura, who won the Female Voice Actor Award, takes handprints - GIGAZINE
At Machi★Asobi vol.10 held in May 2013, I was in charge of being the stationmaster at Tokushima Station for a day.
In response to this trend, Mr. Nakamura was commissioned by Tokushima Prefecture to be the ``Tokushima Anime Ambassador'' at
Eriko Nakamura, who became the 'Tokushima Anime Ambassador' ♪ @eriko_co_log Thank you very much for your support ☆ #machiasobi #machiasobi pic.twitter.com/Ycq6yxPLe3
— Sudachikun Official [Official] (@sudachikun_offi) October 11, 2014
Now that he has become an ambassador, Mr. Nakamura will be given the job of promoting various things about Tokushima Prefecture. At 'Petit★Asobi vol.3' held in March 2015 , strawberry picking was held at Osumi Strawberry Farm . The event was later published in a PR magazine called ``Tokushima Prefecture Travel★Asobi Book''.
And speaking of Tokushima Prefecture, it is Sudachi, so a tree planting tour was finally held at Petit★Asobi vol.5 in March 2017.
◆Machi★Asobeer Harvest Festival
This harvest festival is an event where everyone gathers on site and dissolves on site, so each of us decided to head to the site on our own. You can reach the site by taking a local bus from Tokushima Station.
If you use a private car, it will take around 30 minutes. The following is an in-vehicle video of the car heading towards Kamiyama Town via National Route 55, National Route 192, and National Route 439 from the Yaman intersection in Tokushima City where it enters National Route 192.The arrival point is
Move from Hachiman, Tokushima City to Kamiyama Town on National Route 192 (Tokushima South Ring Road) - YouTube
As you enter the village from the roadside station, you will find Kamiyama Onsen Hotel Shiki no Sato .
A lunch venue was prepared under the name of ``Machiaso Beer Harvest Festival.''
Sudachi Garden is located near the hotel in the Shiki no Sato Forest of Creation.
A signboard was being made for the harvest festival.
Sudachi garden before the harvest festival.
Sudachi looks like a bell even from a distance.
First, Mr. Nakamura (second from the left) and his friends look back at past photos of the sudachi they will be harvesting.
When planting trees, we erected a pillar called ``Ririko Nakamura Tree Planting,'' but as it became damaged due to wind and rain, we decided to put up a new board. Initially, Mr. Nakamura named Sudachi-en ``Nakamuramura,'' but to make it easier to identify it as Sudachi-en, he wrote ``Nakamura Sudachimura Eriko Nakamura.'' When Mr. Tada from the NPO Machi★Asobi, which is in charge of the Sudachi Garden, told me that he was planning to install it after coating it to prevent further damage, Mr. Nakamura said reassuringly, ``I'll write about it again.''
This is not only Mr. Nakamura's first time harvesting sudachi, but it is also the first time for all the participants in the harvest festival.
For this reason, I received a lecture on harvesting methods from Master Sudachi. In addition to being careful because Sudachi branches have thorns, if you leave the branches, the skins of each other will be damaged when the fruit collides with each other, so after removing the fruit, remove it even closer to the calyx. It has become common knowledge to make ``double cuts'' by cutting the meat into shorter lengths.
And finally, we headed to the farm.
First of all, the first 'Hitomogi' by Mr. Nakamura, the village chief of 'Nakamura Sudachimura'.
Mr. Nakamura follows Master Sudachi's teachings and cuts twice.
We will work in pairs to proceed with the harvest. Mr. Nakamura was also harvesting, but everyone was concentrating on Sudachi.
This is what the harvest looks like. You can see them harvesting while having a friendly conversation.
In addition to fruit, the sudachi trees also had cicada shells and large spider webs.
``It's easy to find Sudachi if you look up from below,'' so I looked in. When sudachi is harvested, it is green and difficult to distinguish from the leaves, and even farmers sometimes find that when they check on a tree they thought was finished, sudachi is still left.
First, harvest one basket of sudachi. This weighs approximately 20kg.
Once the trees at the front of the farm have been harvested, we will move on to harvesting towards the back of the farm.
Even when I look up from below, I no longer find Sudachi.
Harvesting takes approximately 45 minutes.
This time, they were able to harvest about 180kg, or 90% of the sudachi that was on the entire farm. In 2022, there was a poor sudachi harvest throughout Tokushima Prefecture, and the harvest at this sudachi farm was 60 kg, which means it has tripled.
This is what the farm looks like after harvest. I can't find any sudachi in the visible range.
Take a commemorative photo in front of the sudachi you harvested.
The farm's Sudachi was used for
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