In China we variously call shiitake-like mushrooms other names: "Winter mushroom" (冬菇) emphasizing seasonality, "Flower mushroom" (花菇) emphasizing the graphical form of cracks on the crown of the most mature specimens, and "Fragrang mushroom" (香菇) emphasizing flavour. For some reason it slightly irritates me that of late western media seems to jump on Japanifying things that are far more broadly produced consumed elsewhere, but that's pop-culture for you...