{"id":38357,"date":"2023-02-16T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e3%81%99%e3%81%af%e3%81%be"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:00:25","slug":"%e3%81%99%e3%81%af%e3%81%be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e3%81%99%e3%81%af%e3%81%be","title":{"rendered":"sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/shop\/?&#038;shop_category%5B%5D=%E5%92%8C%E8%8F%93%E5%AD%90\">Japanese confectionery<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form<span class=\"ruby\">(suhama)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>\n                  Soybeans or green soybeans are roasted and ground into flour, which is then mixed with sugar and starch syrup, kneaded into a stick shape, and cut into a &#8220;suhama-gata&#8221; (a shape of a small island floating in the sea, with a sandbar on three sides at low tide. The cut end is shaped like a &#8220;suhama-gata&#8221; (a small island in the sea with a sandbar on three sides at low tide, a lucky charm displayed at weddings and other ceremonies). It is said to have originated from a Japanese confectionery in Kyoto, and the first owner of the store made it based on a local delicacy from the southeastern part of Omi Province (present-day Shiga Prefecture). The same ingredients are rolled into dumplings called suhama dumplings, which are also a specialty confectionery of Kyoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese confectionery sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form(suhama) Soybeans or green soybeans are roasted and ground into flour, which is then mixed with sugar and starch syrup, kneaded into a stick shape, and cut into a &#8220;suhama-gata&#8221; (a shape of a small island floating in the sea, with a sandbar on three sides at low tide. The cut end is shaped like a &#8220;suhama-gata&#8221; (a small island in the sea with a sandbar on three sides at low tide, a lucky charm displayed at weddings and other ceremonies). It is said to have originated from a Japanese confectionery in Kyoto, and the first owner of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4175,4917],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column-en","category-traditional-culture-dictionary-by-agatajapan-en","tag-wagashi-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}