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LapLap
Do you know what the “red mustard” is in Japanese. It’s not a tsukemono vegetable/herb I’m familiar with and I can’t work out what it would be.
Edit - I suspect it’s
赤大葉高菜(あかおおばたかな) Aka Obaa Takana, Red (big leaf?) Takana.
I only know Takana as green, perhaps the red is best pickled in some way as red shiso (red perilla) is.
I think it's a "karashina" - Varieties on this page include "Red Leaf Mustard"
https://foodslink.jp/syokuzaihyakka/.../karashina.htm