My friend gave me this sweet she received as present because she knows how much I like Japanese sweets. It is a type of rakugan (pressed sugar) sweet from the shop Moroe-ya (諸江屋) that was founded in 1849. It had a dry adzuki anko in the center and was made with both wasabon sugar and kanbai-ko flour. This rakugan is called Man’you no Hana (万葉の花, Flowers of Ten Thousand Leaves). The term “man’you” in particular is famous from the title of an ancient anthology of poems, the Man’you-shuu. I really adore this style of elegantly plain, classic sweets.
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