← 4_Tempura the magical cooking method that renders nearly every wild vegetable (sansai) edible if not uniformly delicious Picking sansai along satoyama’s agrarian seams (yomogi, tsutsuji and tanpopo) → Gathering sansai along satoyama’s agrarian seams: nanten-hagi (two-leaf vetch); kogomi (ostrich fern); amadokoro (Solomon’s seal) and sanshō (Japanese pepper); yomogi (mugwort), tsutsuji (rhododendron) and tanpopo (dandelion); photos: Daniela Kato.