Suillus grevillei
They are very commonly found under the larch tree and easily identified with their beautiful brownish cap and yellow back. They are one of the most popular mushrooms in Japan, especially in Nagano Prefecture where people call them "Rikobou" as local name and love them. You can see many local people gathering them in the larch forest end September to early October.
In my hometown, however, people do not know them and disregard them. You see, Japan is very much mountainous and isolated each other like Caucasus mountain area. People's taste toward mushroom changes quite differently once you go over one mountain. I do not exaggerate things at all.
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