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Commodity illustration: Japanese sanshō pepper

Category:Spices and aromatics

Japanese sanshō pepper

Standard price
1,700 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
1,200 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,900 pieces of eight

Export regions

Sanshō is a Japanese spice valued for the husks of its small fruits. They have a citrus-like fragrance and a sharp, tingling flavour; the shrub's leaves are also aromatic.

It is used in cooking and can make a valued gift. Asakura sanshō is presented to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century. Harvesting and preparing the fruit yields the fragrant husks sold as spice, a small commodity with a strong local reputation.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 533, PDF pages 521.
  • La Révolte, p. 308.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.