my wagashi chronicles

O-Bon or the Bon Festival, which takes place in mid-August, is the time of year when the spirits of deceased ancestors are said to return t...

In the heat of summer, the Japanese prefer to eat food that is both cool to the eyes and cool to the palate. A typical summer wagashi is the...

Daifuku is a soft ball of mochi filled with an (sweet bean jam), and ichigo-daifuku is daifuku with a whole fresh strawberry in the cen...

After a class trip to Kyoto in my last year of high school, I developed a craving for s uhama dango, the small, very sweet, colorful balls ...

This is a nostalgia-inducing, cool, and colorful summer dessert, greatly loved over the generations. An'mitsu is basically a scoop of s...

Dorayaki is one of the most accessible of Japanese sweet snacks. Dora means "gong" in Japanese, so the name of this sweet probab...

The following recipe is my own twist on a traditional sweet potato treat called daigaku-imo ("college potatoes," so called becaus...