亀の手 (Kamenote)

Japanese goose barnacle

  • かめのて
  • Kamenote
  • Pitch 1
  • water animals

Meaning

亀の手 (かめのて, Kamenote) is Japanese goose barnacle — a Japanese food (water animals).

What is Japanese goose barnacle?

Kamenote (Japanese goose barnacle, Capitulum mitella ) is a luxury food item in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and China. The resemblance of barnacle's fleshy stalk to a goose's neck gave rise in ancient times to the notion that geese, or at least certain seagoing species of wild geese, literally grew from the barnacle.