1543 Wagyu®
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why 1543 WAGYU® ?
On September 23, 1543, after a day of storms, a crowd woke up Nishimura Oribenojo, head of a village on the island of Tanegashima, in the extreme south of Japan. There was an apparition on the beach. Men with hairy faces, big noses, strange eyes and dirty, brown, curly hair. Francisco Zeimoto, António Peixoto and António da Mota, Portuguese navigators in the service of El-Rey D. João III, had just arrived in Japan, being the first Westerners to arrive in the Empire of the Rising Sun.
Namban screens - National Museum of Ancient Art - depict the arrival of Portuguese ships at the port of Nagasaki.
Our team...
We are three different breeders, on three different farms, but with the same rigor and the same care!
1543 - 2023
480 years have passed since this first meeting of cultures, three livestock producers in Portugal, breeders of the Japanese Wagyu cattle breed, which is famous for producing the best meat in the world, decided to come together to create the first national meat brand for fullblood Wagyu animals, born and raised in Portugal. Following the ancient Japanese traditions of love and respect for animals.