Wagashi Pix

November is the turn of the seasons, autumn and winter.
This wagashi called Tatsuta-Mochi looks just like four tinted autumnal leaves fell on the snowy ground.

Inside is filled with sweetened red bean paste. The sweetness is slightly strong so that it goes well with the bitterness of green tea treated in Japanese tea ceremony.
The leaves on top are yokan, a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar.

Ingredients:Sugar, red beans, candied chestnuts, agar, gyuhi, kori-mochi ( powdered freeze-dry rice cake )

Shop’s website:
Tsuruya Yoshinobu’s homepage (Japanese)
Tsuruya Yoshinobu’’s homepage (English translated by Google)

Cool kudzu wagashi is standard Japanese confection for summer season.

The tricolore fillings are made from red bean paste and bean paste flavored with apricot and citrus puree.
These are coated with translucent kudzu and bracken dough which is sticky like mochi.

In eastern Japan, this summer is hotter than usual due to the conservation of electricity.
Cold treats are going to help us keep off the summer heat!

Ingredients:Sugar, kidney beans, red beans, malt sugar, apricot puree, Konatsu citrus puree, starch, starch syrup, Konatsu citrus juice, bracken flour, kudzu flour, liqueur, agar-agar

Shop’s website:
Ginza Kanra’s homepage (Japanese)
Ginza Kanra’s homepage (English translated by Google)

Mashed green soybeans are called “Zunda”, so this manju with beautiful natural green filling is called Zunda manju. It is very famous confection in Yamagata and Miyagi prefectures.

My colleague gave me this for the souvenir. It tasted very nice.
Green soybean paste is sweetened with sugar just like ordinally anko (red bean paste) though it tastes slightly lighter.

I’m always pleased with such a regional speciality!

Ingredients:Sugar, green soybean, flour…etc.

This lovely spring confection is called “Yakishigure” that I got for a souvenir in Yokohama.
The ingredients are very simple and it tastes softly sweet.

Ingredients:Sugar, red bean,…etc.
I hardly keep its ingredients in my mind since I had this several months ago…

Shop’s website:
Koroan’s homepage (Japanese)

That’s all about it!

Ingredients:
Sweet potato, sugar, ager

Shop’s website:
Kinokuniya’s homepage (Japanese)
Kinokuniya’s homepage (English translated by Google)