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Ricecakes for SPRING
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
Mochi rice cakes 餠 are eaten in all seasons.
Here are some samples for SPRING.
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Early Spring
Godairiki Mochi ... 五大力餅
Rice cakes for the ceremony of the "five great strong Bodhisattvas" at temple Daigoji in Kyoto.
Uguisu mochi 鶯餅 (うぐいすもち)
"nightingale" rice cakes, bush warbler cakes
They are eaten in anticipation and expectation of hearing the first bush warbler (nightingale) soon.
The oval cakes are filled with red bean paste and covered with green soy bean powder, sometimes green tea powder.
They are sold in mid-march.
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Mid-Spring
The Doll Festival (hina matsuri) more kigo
March 3
Here are some sweets for this festival:
Hishi mochi, hishimochi 菱餅 (ひしもち)
red, white, and green lozenge-shaped rice cakes
我宿の餅さへ青き夜也けり
waga yado no mochi sae aoki yo narikeri
even in my house
the rice cakes are green
in the evening . . .
Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶
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Hina arare 雛あられ (ひなあられ)
mame iri 豆炒（まめいり）
hinagashi 雛菓子（ひながし）
Shirazake 白酒 (しろざけ) sweet white rice wine
vendor of white rice wine, shirazake uri 白酒売（しろざけうり）
flask for white rice wine, shirazake tokkuri 白酒徳利（しろざけとくり）
..... shirazake bin 白酒瓶（しろざけびん）
The preparation is very similar to that of sweet rice wine, amazake.
A sip of this drink is said to ward off disease for the rest of the year. During the Edo period, vendors used to walk the streets as early as February 20. The appearance of a vendor in the famous Kabuki play "Sukeroku" is especially famous.
Woodblock Print by Kunisada
. Sukeroku 助六 - Hero of Edo .
白酒の今宵は女天下なり
shirazake no koyoi wa onna tenka nari
tonight
with the white rice wine ...
the ladies are in power
Hayashi Ichiroku 林一六
Tr. Gabi Greve
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白酒に酔えば昔はよき時代
shirazake ni yoeba mukashi wa yoki jidai
getting drunk
with white rice wine -
the past was a good time
Yamazaki Kumiko 山崎久美子
Tr. Gabi Greve
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source : www.turuya.co.jp
Sweets and Haiku
Kusamochi 草餅 (くさもち) mugwort rice cakes
kusa no mochi 草の餅（くさのもち）
yomogi mochi 蓬餅（よもぎもち）mugwort rice cakes
hooko mochi 母子餅（ほうこもち） "mother and child"
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Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 wrote
両の手に桃と桜や草の餅
ryoo no te ni momo to sakura ya kusa no mochi
in both hands
peach and cherry blossoms
veggie crackers
Tr. Reichhold
[headnote]
"Rich in moon and blossoms":
at my hut there are a peach and cherry tree; for my disciples there are Kikaku and Ransetsu.
in my two hands
peach and cherry blossoms--
and mugwort rice-cake
Tr. Barnhill
Reichhold comments:
"On this occasion Basho was visited by his longtime disciples Kikaku and Ransetsu. The wordplay is built on the proverb 'ryoo no te ni hana', which literally means 'to have flowers in both hands' or a 'double advantage'.
It is often used to describe a man who sits between two pretty women.
The word 'hana' ('flower') is dropped but implied."
source : ayasuzuri
This is a haiku with three kigo, showing the joy of spring.
. Haiku Sweets (haika 俳菓) .
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Warabi mochi, warabimochi 蕨餅 (わらびもち) bracken starch rice cakes
speciality in the Kansai area. bracken-starch dumplings
covered with kinako soy bean flower
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Late Spring
Sakura mochi, sakuramochi ... 桜餅
Cherry Blossom Rice Cakes
This is a variety of wagashi, or Japanese confectionery consisting of a sweet pink mochi (rice cake) and red bean paste, covered with a leaf of sakura (cherry).
The style of sakuramochi differs from the regions in Japan. Basically, the east of Japan such as Tokyo uses shiratama-ko (白玉粉, shiratama-ko rice flour) and the west side such as Kansai uses dōmyōji-ko (道明寺粉, dōmyōji-ko glutinous rice flour) for batter.More in the WIKIPEDIA !
In some areas they are also eaten for
the Doll Festival (Hina Matsuri).
三つ食えば葉三片や桜餅
mitsu kueba yoo sanpen ya sakuramochi
if you eat three
you have three leaves -
sakuramochi
Takahama Kyoshi 高浜虚子
At the temple Choomeiji 長命寺 Chomei-Ji they are wrapped in three leaves, so if you eat three cakes you have nine leaves.
Utagawa Toyokuni 歌豊国 (国貞) － 向島堤の花並びに桜餅
Two ladies carry Sakuramochi from the temple, maybe as a souvenir to the people back home. They have a pole in their hands and two bamboo baskets full of the sweets!
一英斎芳艶 - 歌川芳艶 Utagawa Yoshitsuya (1822 - 1866)
. Choomeiji 長命寺 Chomei-Ji, Sumida ward, Tokyo .
In Osaka and the Kansai region they use dōmyōji-ko 道明寺粉, glutinous rice flour.
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All Spring
Tsubaki mochi, tsubakimochi 椿餅 (つばきもち) camellia rice cakes
..... tsubaimochi, tsubai mochi つばいもち【椿餅】
..... tsubai mochii つばいもちい
This sweet has been introduced from China. Made from hoshii rice of the temple Domyoji 道明寺糒(ほしいい).
The white or pink mochi is sprinkeld with amazura 甘葛 and then placed between two shining green leaves of camellia, which is a very special Japanese touch to the sweet.
This sweet is already mentioned in the Genji Monogatari.
妻在らず盗むに似たる椿餅
tsuma arazu nusumi ni nitaru tsubakimochi
my wife is not home -
like a thief I eat this
camellia sweet
. Ishida Hakyo 石田波郷（
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
Haiku and the Doll Festival (hina matsuri, Japan)
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船室に雛の日とて桜餅
senshitsu ni hina no hi tote sakuramochi
in the ship's cabin
we eat sakuramochi -
it's Doll's Festival
Takahama Kyoshi 高浜虚子
On his trip to France
Tr. Gabi Greve
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街の雨鶯餅がもう出たか
michi no ame uguisu mochi ga moo deta ka
rain on the road -
are the uguisu mochi
already on sale?
. Tomiyasu Fusei (Fuusei) 富安風生
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***** WASHOKU : Mochi Rice cakes
***** Wagashi ... Sweets
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8 comments:
Oh, that's naughty and nice.
Easy for a guy like me to relate to.
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- sakuramochi -
長命寺さくらもちより賀状かな
choomeiji sakuramochi yori nenga kana
from temple Chomei-Ji
instead of cherry blossom rice cakes
there comes a New Year greeting . . .
The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.
. 久保田万太郎 Kubota Mantaro .
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about the temple Chomei-Ji in Tokyo
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- Mochi 餅 rice cakes and 妖怪 Yokai monsters -
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kusamochi
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kusamochi - Kobayashi Issa
草餅や地蔵の膝においてくふ
kusamochi ya jizoo no hiza ni oite kuu
the herb cakes
I put on holy Jizo's lap
then eat
An herb cake (kusamochi) has been left as an offering in the lap of a stone (or wood) Jizô. In this haiku, Shinji Ogawa explains, Issa is using Jizô's lap as a dining table. He adds, "Jizô might be disappointed." Before the last word of the haiku, kuu ("eat"), the scene seems to be conventionally pious: someone is placing an offering cake in Jizô's lap. Issa, however, comically replaces piety with gluttony.
Jizô is the beloved guardian deity of children.
David Lanoue
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Legend from Ibaraki
茨城町 Ibaraki city
hebi 蛇 serpent - kaapa かあぱ Kappa
Once upon a time a vicious serpent (or maybe a Kappa) lived in the river and many children lost their lives.
The villagers asked a Rokubu what to do about this.
The Rokubu told them to make mochi 餅 rice cakes on the last day of the year, give them to children and have them throw into the river. This would protect the children.
And indeed, from that time on, no more water accidents happened at the river.
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2017/10/rokubu-pilgrims-03-ibaraki.html
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mochi 餅と伝説 Legends about rice cakes
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collecting here
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2018/09/mochi-rice-cake-legends.html
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Oni demons made from mochi rice dough
観菩提寺 正月堂の修正会／三重県伊賀市 For the Shuni-E ritual at temple Kanbodai-Ji
鬼らしい。鬼なんだけれど、 like Oni 鬼 demons .
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https://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/mie-prefectur.html
草餅や中仙道に一里塚
kusamochi ya Nakasendoo ni ichirizuka
these mugword rice cakes -
along the Nakasendo
at the milestone mound
福原紫朗 Fukuwara Shiro
We can see the poet sitting down and enjoying a snack at the milestone marker.
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2019/07/ichirizuka-milestone-mound.html
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