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There are two sweets, both wrapped in leaves, that are absolutely essential for "Children's Day": kashiwa mochi (かしわ餅/柏餅) and chimaki (ちまき/粽).
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Kashiwa mochi, a rice cake wrapped in an 'oak' leaf, is popularly eaten around Children's Day.
Enjoying matcha and a chimaki before our small Children's Day display.
Koinobori 'swimming' in the wind.
Conical shaped chimaki, a sweet typically eaten for Children's Day.
🍀LUCKY LEAVES✨
Three types of leaves, thanks to their symbolism, play an important role at this time of year.
👑🍃daimyo oak or Japanese emperor oak (柏 'kashiwa)
🎋🍃bamboo (笹の葉 'sasa-no-yō')
⚔️🍃iris (菖蒲 'ayame' or 'shōbu')
Preparing bamboo leaves to wrap around chimaki cakes.
An opened kashiwa mochi sweet (the rice cake revealed under the leaf).
Nao-san enjoys the irises at Ota Pond.
A beautiful green and purple domyoji sweet featuring a branded iris flower.
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Iris leaves, thanks to their shape, have long been associated with swords...both protecting against & cutting through misfortune.
The word for iris, 'shōbu' (菖蒲), is also a homonym for 'warlike spirit' (尚武), and from Kamakura times the flowers came to symbolise the warrior.
Around May 5th people bath in water strewn with iris leaves. It was believed this offered protection from ill health and bad luck.
Part of our Children's Day set features tiny bundles of iris leaves.
Miniature armor for our samurai doll.
Iris leaves illuminated by the sun at Ota Pond.
Kameya Shigehisa's (亀屋重久) owner and master confectioner kindly demonstrates how each chimaki is prepared.
The store is located across the road from Myōshin-ji's (妙心寺) north gate.
➡️https://www.kameya-shigehisa.com/
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