Japanese sweets

The features of Japanese sweets are graceful sweet taste and creative designs which used various natural foods as it's motif.Early Japanese sweets were made by the manufacturing process of the Tang confectionery imported from the China continent by an official envoy's to Tang from Japan.Furthermore, after transmitting tea from China, confectionery structure has also spread in Japan with the custom of tea drinking.Portuguese and Spanish people had come in 16th century, and sponge cakes, cookies, biscuits, konpeitos, toffees, etc. had come to be made by them.On Edo period, Kyoto sweets to be making on Kyoto(Mikado's city)and upper sweets to be making on Edo(Shogun's city) vied in delicacy.Confectionery craftsmen were enabled to made delicious sweets depending on manufacture technologies of Japanese sweets developed and technologies didn't change till the present age.Moreover, the tea ceremony was prosperous in the castle towns of a large han as Sendai of the Date han, Kanazawa of the Kaga han, Matsue of the Matsue han, etc.In these cities confectionery craftsmen had made Japanese sweets brisklyAt present the most Japanese-sweets stores have inherited their traditions and they are continuing to make Japanese sweets with delicious taste.



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TITLE	Toraya
U R L	http://www.toraya-group.co.jp/top_e.htm
Bookmark	TORAYA Confectionery Co., Ltd
Organization	TORAYA Confectionery Co., Ltd
Outline	This store is an old Japanese-sweets store and founded in the Muromachi period. It's branches are located also abroad. They sell very famous Yohkan.

TITLE	Tsubaya kashiho
U R L	http://www.tsubaya.com/
Bookmark	TSUBAYA HOME PAGE
Organization	TSUBAYA
Outline	Outline This store is a Japanese-sweets store in Mie prefecture. It sells Yohkan, Rice-cracker, dry confectioneries, etc.