<entry id="2228819" stat="R" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1302710</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>山葵</keb>
<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>和佐比</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>わさび</reb>
<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ワサビ</reb>
<re_nokanji/>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&uk;</misc>
<gloss>wasabi (Wasabia japonica)</gloss>
<gloss>Japanese horseradish</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-10-09 11:23:41" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_detl>dunno if the katakana version is more common than the hiragana 
version, but I guess that's how it will appear now?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%93</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,4 @@
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;ワサビ&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;re_nokanji/&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -15,1 +19,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;wasabi (Japanese horseradish)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;wasabi (Wasabia japonica)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-10 04:43:40" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2015-02-25 10:21:32" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Hendrik</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Even though it is nowadays usually written in hiragana or katakana, the kanji does show up on occasion...</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Text at hand
On the web:
http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%92%8C%E4%BD%90%E6%AF%94
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi
etc.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;和佐比&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2015-02-25 21:57:28" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Pretty rare.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -9,0 +10 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;ateji;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-12-05 15:26:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Opencooper</upd_name>
<upd_refs>gg5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -23,0 +24 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;Japanese horseradish&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-12-05 16:57:35" stat="A">
<upd_uid>johan</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Johan Råde</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>wiki</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-04-17 08:56:22" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Google shopping search for 和佐比 yields no results.  If it's not even used for marketing...
Twitter search doesn't yield anything but people throwing out "和佐比" as trivia(and usernames).
Wikipedia mentions 和佐比 specifically as an orthography recorded from ~800~1200a.d.

*only* appearance in all of wikipedia for  和佐比 or 山萮菜 is the historical note on the wasabi page itself.

IME won't produce 和佐比 (MacOS)
amazon.co.jp can't even match 和佐比 with wasabi

yourei returns two results, and they are both copies of the same text, which is a historical reference to the heian period orthography:
1. ワサビの語源については、平安時代中期の『本草和名』には、「山葵」の和名を和佐比と記している。同じく平安時代の『和名類聚抄』にも和佐比と記されている。

If you search on google, you get some hits.  They are:
1. Extremely historical texts
2. Mentions of the etymology of the modern term
3. People who have incorporated it on a lark into usernames on websites ("和佐比さんの手書きブログ")

I think on balance that it is counterproductive to display the form, especially for such a common term. (people should not learn or use it, and are unlikely to encounter it).</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>ワサビ	265338	66.7%
山葵	132404	33.3%
山萮菜	0	0.0% &lt;-- wikipedia added this, for some reason or another. Seems possibly Chinese
和佐比	106	0.0%</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10 +10 @@
-&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;ateji;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-04-17 12:10:53" stat="R">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>This seemed to become a fork.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>