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Owls make a regular appearance in Beniya Miyake's (紅谷三宅) annual line-up.

Last autumn's creations were known as "owls that bring good fortune" (幸運を呼ぶミミズク)🦉😋

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The sweet is finished off with a squeeze of sharp lemon syrup...🍋💦✨😲😊

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To combat the sweltering summer afternoon, how about a refreshing snack from Kameyama Yoshinaga (亀屋良長) that looks like a miniature kakigōri (かき氷)🍧
The sweet's name, 'nōryō' (納涼), loosely translates as 'finding a cool breeze to escape the heat'😎

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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.

This is how Itotatsu-san makes the 'sei-no-hana' (聖の花)...

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Seiyō-san's (青洋) latest creation is a beautiful, water lily-inspired sweet called 'sōryō' (爽涼), which simply means 'refreshing cool'.

The slightly watercolour quality of the sweet brings to mind Claude Monet's (1840–1926) 'Water Lilies'.
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🍉WATERMELON DAY🥤

Kameya Yoshinaga's (亀屋良長) adorable 'hito-suzumi' (ひと涼み 'cooling off') are the perfect treat for July 27th's 'Suika-no-hi' (スイカの日)!🥳🍉🙌

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Hidden Wonders | A Quiet Edo Garden Next Door to Tokyo Dome https://www.allforgardening.com/1895182/hidden-wonders-a-quiet-edo-garden-next-door-to-tokyo-dome/ #birdwatching #BunkyoWard #daifuku #garden #gardener #gardening #HiddenWonders #JapaneseGardens #kingfisher #KoishikawaKorakuen #MitoTokugawa #SpaLaqua #tokyo #TokyoDome #wagashi

Gyōja mochi (行者餅) is a thin pancake wrapped around gyūhi (求肥 - a thin type of mochi) and a paste of white miso seasoned with sanshō (山椒 - Japanese pepper).
The pepper gives the otherwise sweet confection a nice spicy (and fruity) punch😯

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🙏😋GOBBLING GOOD HEALTH✨💪
Queueing in 35 degree heat for over three hours for a sweet that is available only once a year...🌞⏱️🥹

July 16th was 'gyōja mochi' day (行者餅)🙌

The sweet is sold exclusively by Kashiwaya Mitsusada (柏屋光貞) in Gion.
#Kyoto #wagashi #祇園祭 #京都

Yasaka-jinja's crests are a popular motif for many sweets at this time of year...

🏮Kagizen's (鍵善) 'Gion-mamori' (祇園まもり)
🏮Kamesuehiro's (亀末廣) fan-shaped dried sweets
🏮'Kagijin's (かぎ甚) 'hoko-mochi' (鉾餅)
🏮Oimatsu's (老松) 'Gion goryō-e' (祇園御霊会)
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Morning delivery of Oimatsu's (老松) 'hoshi-ai' (星合い 'the meeting of stars')✨
For a short time, in the week leading up to Tanabata, we serve these sweets at our Garden Teahouse.

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A constellation in the palm of your hands for Tanabata (七夕)🎋✨
Kameya Yoshinaga's (亀屋良長) beautiful 'ginga' (銀河 'galaxy')🙌💫🥰
🧵🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛❤️🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐄

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Oimatsu's 'ao-ume' (青梅), a sweet we often serve to guests this month🙌
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 #wagashi #和菓子 #老松

For those who can't wait for the fruit to mature, juicy looking 'aoume' (青梅) offer a nice, sweet alternative.

Shioyoshiken's (塩芳軒) annual offering...

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The weather is warm and the baby ume are plumping up nicely...so thoughts naturally turn to refreshing 'ao-ume' (青梅 'unripe plums')🙌
Kameya Yoshinaga's (亀屋良長) vibrant 🍑-like version contain a delicious ume jelly within.

#和菓子 #Kyoto #京都 #青梅 #wagashi #ume #plum

These little turnip beauties are from Kameya Shigehisa (亀屋重久) and Kagizen (鍵善良房).

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Open for a surprise...🍒👀✨

Senbon Tamajuken's (千本玉壽軒) peach-coloured 'sakuranbo' (さくらんぼ 'cherries')🙌

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Inside the cheerful little eggplant is white bean paste mixed with black sesame seeds, mimicking the flesh of the fruit😋

#なすび餅 #eggplant #Toraya #とらや #Kyoto #京都 #wagashi #和菓子 #Japan

🍉🥒FRUIT AND VEG🍒🍑

There is something quite adorable about traditional sweets that mimic (or incorporate) seasonal fruit and vegetables.

For a few short weeks in May each year Toraya (とらや) produce a plump little sweet called 'nasubi-mochi' (なすび餅 'eggplant mochi')🍆
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One unusual dish that we enjoyed in rainy season last year was Kagijin's (かぎ甚) delicate slivers of white miso mizu yōkan (白味噌水ようかん). Slightly salted and lightly tasting of yuzu, from a distance the gorgeous sweet almost looks like thin slices of fish🧐
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Some of my most anticipated waka-ayu come courtesy of nearby Itotatsu (いと達).

The ruddy-cheeked 'horoyoi-ayu' (ほろ酔い鮎), looking a little tipsy from their nihonshu (日本酒) and coconut flavoured filling, are a firm favourite here at the teahouse🤣

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Me: How many waka-ayu have you eaten this year Nao-chan?
Nao-san: ...........
(minutes pass)
Me: Are you having trouble remembering?
Nao-san: No, I'm still counting.
😵‍💫

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To refresh the senses on this stuffy day, 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 kuzu!
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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)

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🧊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.
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What more fitting sweet for tea by the river than Tawaraya Yoshitomi's (俵屋吉富) 'Kamogawa-ayu' (鴨川あゆ).
Delicately flavoured with ginger, the confection is inspired by young sweetfish gathering in the clear blue waters of Kyōto's Kamo River.

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Atsuko-san shows us the best way to eat hamazuto (浜土産)...using the shell as a spoon!🐚🥣
It's a little tricky prizing open the shells, but that's what makes them the perfect container for sweets😋

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(she did enjoy it, despite the odd look on her face🤣)

Inside the shell a rich amber jelly encases a dark, pearl-like bean. This miso-flavoured hama-nattō (浜納豆) gives the sweet confection a salty kick🦪😋

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Management should give everyone Yatsuhashi!
I like it so much, I'm sure it can't be ruined.

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Although bamboo itself does not inspire many traditional sweets, the leaves of the plant make for a handy wrapping or even as a small plate!🎋

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