藻も塩しお

noun

seaweed salt; salt from burning seaweed

Traditional Japanese salt made by burning seaweed and mixing the ashes with seawater, then boiling it down. Often associated with ancient salt-making methods and poetic references.

• 藻も塩しおは古こ来らいの製せい塩えん法ほうで作つくられる。

  Seaweed salt is made using an ancient salt-making method.

• 万まん葉よう集しゅうには藻も塩しおを詠よんだ歌うたがある。

  There are poems about seaweed salt in the Man'yōshū.