According to George Kerr’s book, “Okinawa, The History of an Island People,” beni imo was brought to Okinawa in 1606 by Noguni Sōkan, who was stationed at a Ryūkyū (Okinawa) trading post in the southern coastal district of the Fukien Province, China.

The weight measurements in the first run were artifactually high because of a tare weight error.

[1611?], Homer, Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets.[…], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets,[…], new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co.,[…], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

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