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イトーヨーカドー、新ブランド「鳩印（はとじるし）」誕生。豆大福/どら焼き発売
https://gourmet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2025339.html
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和菓子「カービィの夢の泉の星こばこ」が再販決定。カービィの世界観を表現するキュートな「落雁（らくがん）」「琥珀糖」を詰め合わせ。夜空をかけるカービィを和風にあしらったパッケージで登場
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/250623w

#denfaminicogamer #カービィの_夢の泉の星こばこ #和菓子 #星のカービィ #ニュース #鶴屋吉信 #fab

And to finish this thread, a minatsuki (水無月) that really does look like it's been crafted from ice🧊🤤

Tsuruya Kakuju-an's (鶴屋鶴壽庵) twist on the minatsuki has the beans inside the kuzu!

#wagashi #和菓子 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan

Tsuruya Kakuju-an's version of the minatsuki really does look as if it is crafted from ice.

Preparing the tokonoma for late June (a tiny chinowa ring can be seen beneath the hanging scroll, a miniature version of the rings we walk through to purify ourselves at this time of year).

Murakami-san's beautiful flower arrangement.

Kagizen's (かぎ甚) twist on the traditional minatsuki is one of the most interesting...

🤍🫘 - delicately flavoured with yuzu-peel (白 - ゆず皮入り)
🤎🫘 - hōji-cha (roasted green tea - ほうじ茶)

#wagashi #和菓子 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan

Minatsuki flavoured with hoji-cha (roasted green tea).

Minatsuki flavoured with yuzu peel and hoji-cha.

Toraya's (とらや) 'spring thunder' (春雷) and Kameya Yoshinaga's (亀屋良長) 'first thunder' (初雷) can be imagined in 1 of 2 ways...

⚡️a parched and cracked earth waiting for the first spring storms to deliver water
...or...
🌧️a spring-tinged ground cracking open with the first signs of new life

#wagashi #和菓子

'Spring thunder' or 'first thunder' is a traditional sweet found in springtime, known for its distinctive cracked surface.

Woodblock print of travelers sheltering under straw rain coats and hats as they pass over a bridge during a rain storm.

Image thanks - https://ukiyo-e.org/

The sweets are named after the sixth month in the traditional calendar.

'Minazuki' (水無月) can be translated as the 'Month of Water', referring to the flooding of the fields in preparation for the planting of rice seedlings.

#水無月 #和菓子 #田植え #夏越の祓 #Japan

An old photo of women planting rice seedlings in the flooded fields.

It is customary to eat minatsuki (水無月) for 'Nagoshi-no-harae' (夏越の祓) on June 30th, a summer purification rite during which people symbolically clean away any 'impurities' and protect themselves for the remainder of the year.

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #夏越の祓 #水無月 #和菓子

Minatsuki and minazuki (水無月) are made from 'uirō-mochi' (外郎餠), a steamed cake of rice or bracken flour and sugar.
The sweets are traditionally topped with a layer of red beans, cut into triangles, and wrapped in bamboo leaves.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #水無月 #minatsuki #和菓子

A traditional triangular sweet known as minatsuki or mizazuki. Red beans cover a layer of soft mochi.

🧊A SLICE OF ICE📐
One sweet that arrives just in time for the fierce summer heat is 'minatsuki' (水無月 aka 'minazuki').

Like many of Kyōto's mid-year confections, minatsuki are not themselves cooling, but were designed to turn our thoughts to ice and shade.

#和菓子 #wagashi #summer #Kyoto #水無月

A triangular sweet known as minatsuki. Eaten in the summer months, it is designed to resemble a slice of ice and thus help us think cooling thoughts.

Kinton (金団) are small balls of sweet bean paste covered in a colourful, shredded type of dough (commonly made from a type of potato).

Nowadays they have an almost fuzzy appearance, but originally were far simpler and far plainer.

#和菓子の日 #和菓子 #kinton #きんとん #Japan

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Eating sweets on this day slowly spread to the masses.

A particular custom emerged, in a call-back to the original celebration, of eating 16 types of sweets (costing 16 文 'mon'). As the act of eating was a prayer of sorts, they were consumed in silence!

#和菓子の日 #和菓子 #sweetsday #wagashinohi

A vivid blue jelly with white interior designed to mimic clouds in the sky.

A real slice of lemon is suspended in this jelly, the finished design likened to lace.

A yokan (jelly) flavoured with coffee, raspberry and mint layers.

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An official document of 1818 states that 20,000 individual sweets were prepared in Edo Castle (江戸城) for this single day!
Guests queued for hours to receive their sweets.

Naturally there was symbolism in this act....

#Japan #和菓子の日 #WagashiDay #wagashi #京都 #Kyoto #和菓子

A sweet designed to look like a juicy red apple.

A sweet inspired by a Kyoto grown turnip.

A jelly with a miniature eggplant, tomato and okura within.

Soy flour and sugar crafted to look like cherries!

In the Edo period the custom of 'Kajō-gashi' (嘉祥菓子) spread from the imperial court to the samurai class.

The day was renamed 'Kashōchodai' (嘉祥頂戴) and the traditions were turned upside down. The shōgun would instead present sweets to the daimyō and his household staff.

#wagashi #嘉祥菓子 #嘉祥頂戴 #和菓子

Dried sweets that mimic forest litter (fallen leaves, nuts and fungi).

Jellied sweets in the shape of fish nibble on moss-like balls of soy flour and sugar.

Dried sweets for the Gion Matsuri (some in the shape of fans emblazoned with the festival crests, the other recalling the lanterns hanging from the floats).

Sweets for rainy season...dried sweets in the shape of straw hats, and jellies in the shape of hydrangea petals.

Dango [団子], Mount Takao [高尾山 | Takao-san], Japan 🇯🇵, 4th January 2017.

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#Japan #Tokyo #東京都 #東京 #日本国 #日本
#MoutTakao #高尾山 #TakaoSan #Dango #団子 #JapaneseFood #和食 #washoku #WorldFood #cuisine #wagashi #和菓子
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Thanks to Emperor Ninmyō, sweets became associated with good health and the prevention of disease.

Named after the new era, 'Kajō-gashi' (嘉祥菓子) were a type of sweet eaten each June 16th as a prayer for health. This tradition continued for many centuries.

#和菓子の日 #Japan #Kyoto #京都 #和菓子

Kagizen Yoshifusa produced 'Tameiki-chan', a pointy-headed, rather melancholy-looking sweet, for an art exhibition.

An eel-shaped sweet produced for the Doyo-no-hi celebration in July.

Bandai and Family Mart's strawberry milk flavoured polar bear, and a milk flavoured tonkatsu nerikiri🤣

A nerikiri sweet in the shape of a seal for Kyoto Aquarium.

Ume fruit picked on June 16th is known as 'kashō-no-ume' (嘉祥の梅).
There is a superstition that if you dry out the plums and eat them then you will escape misfortune and other disasters✨

#嘉祥の梅 #梅 #ume #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #wagashi #和菓子 #和菓子の日