Wheat of Middle Age
Wheat cultivation in Japan
When it became around the 8th century,
a trend which encourages wheat cultivation appeared in part
It because the wheat can harvest by midsummer so there is no fear to be attacked by drought and typhoon.
After that, people ate wheat as noodles and Manju, but its production is less than rice's.
It is the Edo period that wheat cultivation began full-scale.
Besides udon, Manju, rice cracker, it came to be used for sponge cake transmitted from the Europe.
But it did not still extend to the rice cultivation.
