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are read as wakame), nigime (???, soft wakame) can be seen. Besides, tamamo (??, lit. 'beautiful algae'), which often appeared in the Man'yoshu, may be wakame depending on poems.

History in the West

The earliest appearance in Western documents is probably in the Portuguese Nippo Jisho (1603), as Vacame.

In 1867 the word wakame appeared in an English-language publication, A Japanese and English Dictionary, by James C. Hepburn.

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