Wagashi Pix

Senbei are Japanese rice crackers made by being baked or grilled traditionally over charcoal.
They are often eaten with green tea as a casual snack.Senbei come in various shapes, sizes, and flavors, usually savory but sometimes sweet.

This one is sweet type senbei which has crispy horsebeans mixed inside.
A print of deer is a familiar motif of Nara prefecture.

Shop information:
Kuruminoki’s homepage (Japanese)
Kuruminoki’s homepage (English translated by Google)

This confection is a soft rice cake coated with green soybean flour. Its color is light green like a uguisu (bush warbler), the symbol of spring. It has a filling made of sweet red bean paste.

Shop location:
4-4-2, Eifuku,
Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0064
（Other chain stores）

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

Monaka is a Japanese sweet made of azuki bean filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from rice flour.
As for the filling, sesame seed, chestnuts or rice cake are also popular. Monaka come in various shapes such as circle, square, triangle, or flower.

The filling of monaka in the photo:
(left) red azuki bean paste
(right) white azuki bean paste & sweetened chestnuts

Shop location:
1-23, Hongocho,Naka-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 231-0843

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

Jo-Namagashi is a type of confection which is generally served as a snack during a Japanese tea ceremony. It is beautifully designed in detail using seasonal and natural motifs such as leaves and flowers.

There are so many types of Jo-Namagashi, and this one is called Nerikiri, a white bean paste kneaded with gyuhi or yam. It is so soft and glutinous that you can mold it into various shapes. Food coloring is mixed into the paste before shaping.

The nerikiri in the photo resembles a tinted autumnal leaf. The filling is made of sweet red bean paste.

Shop location:
4-4-2, Eifuku,
Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0064
（Other chain stores）

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

Jo-Namagashi is a type of confection which is generally served as a snack during a Japanese tea ceremony. It is beautifully designed in detail using seasonal and natural motifs such as leaves and flowers.

This Jo-Namagashi is called Seppei.
It is decorated with a Japanese winterberry, and sweet white bean paste is stuffed inside the thin rice‐cake skin.

Shop location:
5-8-1, Nakazato,
Kiyose-shi, Tokyo 204-0003
（Other chain stores）

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