Mizunazuki is the lunar calendar name for June, and this triangle sweets is called Minazuki. It is a Japanese traditional sweets made by rice jelly with sweetened azuki beans on top. I arranged matcha jelly in between to make it 3 layers. In Kyoto, it is customary to eat this on June 30, the day […]

Japanese celebrate May 5 as “Children’s day”, which is one of the national holidays. People hang up the carp streamers called “Koinobori”, display ornamental helmets called “kabuto” and eat traditional foods. I baked Rolled cakes in the shape of carp streamer.

March 21 is spring equinox called O-Higan in Japan. The “O-Higan” is a Buddhist event that occurs twice a year, in spring and autumn. Many Japanese visit their family graves and clean the grave.  O-Higan literally translates as “the other shore.”  On equinox day, it is said that the distance between ‘this world’ and ‘that world’  becomes closest. So they […]