山形県花に指定されている「最上紅花」。江戸時代、山形で摘み取り「花餅」に
加工され運ばれていました。現在もこだわり使用しております。

BENIBANA・Safflower(Composite Planet)

Its place of origin is Egypt and it was brought over to Japan in
about 1300 a.d. via India and China. Being used as one of the
red color botanical dyes, the cultivation was started in the Yonezawa
district in the Yamagata Prefecture in the late Muromachi Era (around
1500). It was then extensively carried on in the Yamagata District
as well (Where it was called Mogami Benibana) and finally
developed as a local industry for materials of rouge and the Yuzen
process of printed silk. Although chemical dyes were bound to press
over the natural dyes, we hove done our best to revive the
Benibana dyes as one of the local industries. Benibana is now the
prefectural flower of Yamagata.