mochi containing red bean paste(Kanokomochi)
mochi (glutinous rice or other grain, sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes)adzuki beans
Mochi or gyuhi is wrapped in azuki bean paste and decorated with red bean grains boiled in honey on the surface. The name comes from the fact that the appearance of the mochi looks like the spots on the surface of a deer’s head. The mochi wrapped in red bean paste made from kidney beans and decorated with honey-simmered white kidney beans is called kyo shikanoko. It is said to have spread throughout Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867), when it was first sold at the Japanese sweets shop of Kabuki actor Arashi Otohachi’s family in Nihonbashi Ningyocho.
