First developed in Shizuoka Prefecture by Hideo Ikawa, the grape is a hybrid tetraploid cultivar of the widely planted Kyoho and Cannon Hall Muscat grapes.

The Cannon Hall Muscat is a large white table grape connected to seed originally brought from Greece in 1813, by John Spencer Stanhope resident of Cannon Hall near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

[2] Noted for large, generally seedless, purple skinned fruit.

Ranks third behind Kyoho and Delaware in terms of total volume of table grape production in Japan.

[3] Commands a price premium as a table grape, but also occasionally used to produce rosé single varietal wine.