In Japan, it is possible to collect the matsutake in autumn.
Japanese love matsutake very much.
Taking the matsutake is difficult, and the growth of it is slow.
Matsutake was not luxury so,People were also eating it in the Edo period.
However environment which can grow matsutake was depleted than about 70 years ago.
Currently, the price of matsutake is higher, is more than 5,000 yen one.
Ordinary people can not eat it feel free.
The most common reason matsutake is loved, is a fragrance.
In order to enjoy the taste and flavor,we eat by heating mainly matsutake.
This fragrance is loved deeply familiar to Japanese people.
However, is said to "smell of socks of military personnel" in Europe, when it is often hated it.
Matsutake may be something like a truffle for the Japanese people.
