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Amakusa DaiouAmakusa Daiou

Also known as: 天草大王

A large native chicken breed raised in Amakusa during the Meiji and Taisho eras. It went extinct in the early Showa period but was revived over roughly a decade starting in 1992 through restoration research by Kumamoto Prefecture, earning the name "the phantom local chicken."

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