Morokoshi is one of northern Japan's oldest dry confections, and Karakudo (唐土庵) in the old samurai town of…
Kibi dango are soft, chewy millet-and-glutinous-rice dumplings pressed into small flat rounds and lightly dusted so they never…
In the former castle town of Kanazawa, the confectioner Morihachi has been making sweets since 1625, when the…
Konpeito, the tiny star-shaped sugar candy, arrived in Japan with 16th-century Portuguese traders, and few makers have kept…
Wasanbon is Japan's most refined traditional sugar, milled to a powder so fine it melts on the tongue,…
Toraya (虎屋), founded in Kyoto in the early 1500s and purveyor of wagashi to the Japanese Imperial Court…
