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Takana-zuke is Kyūshū mustard greens layered in a tub with salt and chilli, trodden or pressed hard and kept under a lid and weight. A light pickle is ready in about 3 days, while a saltier one ferments for half a year or a year into a sour furuzuke. The old pickle is chopped and fried in oil, as in takana-meshi rice.
Fully documentedVegetables6.4 months – 12 months
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceTwo household recipes from MAFF regional-cuisine pages, one for a pickle container of Aso takana (Kumamoto prefecture's recipe book) and one for a 10 L tub of Setaka takana (a Miyama maker).
Total time across the recorded steps: 6.4 months – 12 months
Start
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What changes:Starting material: takana stems snapped off by hand in March and April
Step 1 of 7
Hand-snap harvest (takana-ori)
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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The thick stems have a point where they snap, so they are still picked by hand, not machine.
Flavour
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Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Takana-zuke is Kyūshū mustard greens layered in a tub with salt and chilli, trodden or pressed hard and kept under a lid and weight. A light pickle is ready in about 3 days, while a saltier one ferments for half a year or a year into a sour furuzuke. The old pickle is chopped and fried in oil, as in takana-meshi rice. Made in 7 steps over 6.4 months – 12 months. The longest step, long lactic fermentation (furuzuke), takes 6–12 months (MAFF 2026). Salt is 4 % (MAFF 2026).
Unlike nozawana-zuke, takana-zuke is a spring pickle of stems snapped off by hand, and it is made at two strengths, a 4 % light pickle and a 6–8 % pickle fermented for months. The Saga okomoji is desalted and fried, which MAFF notes cuts its salt [maff-saga].
The Aso recipe uses salt at 4 % of the greens for the 3-day pickle and 6 % or 8 % for pickles kept 6 months or a year. The brine that rises over the lid is wiped off every 2-3 days and poured away after a week. The Setaka maker presses out the water and stores the pickle with turmeric and chilli under weight. Soaking the old pickle overnight before frying lowers its salt [maff-aso, maff-setaka, maff-saga].
Takana-zuke began to circulate in the Meiji era. A green brought from Sichuan, China was crossed with a local variety to make the large Miike takana, which was trial-grown in the Chikugo region, especially Setaka in Miyama [maff-setaka].
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.