Latest newsletter: "Minazuki"

June 27, 2019

June is "Roku-gatsu(the 6th month of the year)" in Japanese. It also has another traditional name, Minazuki (水無月), which means "the month of water". One of the theories about how it was named is that June is the month to irrigate rice paddies in the old lunar calendar.

There is a traditional confectionery which was named exactly the same, "Minazuki". This sweet is eaten in the Kyoto prefecture as a custom. There is a sweet called Uiro which is a Japanese steamed cake made of rice flour and sugar. "Minazuki" has sweet adzuki beans layered on top of Uiro and is customarily cut into a triangle shape.


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Longing colour: Minazuki

Translation by: Hitomi Kochi, reviewed by Chan Yee Ting

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