What is “Uguisumochi”? Which season is it?(Uguisumochi)
Mochi or gyuuhi (rice cake) filled with koshian (sweetened red bean paste), pointed at both ends, and covered with a light green kinako (soybean flour) called “ao kinako. As the name suggests, it is reminiscent of the shape and color of the wings of the Japanese bush warbler, a bird that heralds the arrival of spring. According to “Spider’s Thread Scroll,” an essay by Santo Kyozan, a late-Edo period playwright, “Uguisumochi” was widely popular as an early spring sweet along with sakura-mochi and others by the end of the Edo period.
