{"id":38403,"date":"2023-02-02T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e8%90%bd%e9%9b%81"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:00:04","slug":"%e8%90%bd%e9%9b%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e8%90%bd%e9%9b%81","title":{"rendered":"geese alighting"},"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>geese alighting<span class=\"ruby\">(rakugan)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e5%b9%b2%e8%8f%93%e5%ad%90\">dried confectionary<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%89%93%e3%81%a1%e7%89%a9\">forged weaponry (e.g. swords, spears, etc.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  Grains such as rice, azuki, soybeans, and buckwheat are milled, kneaded with sugar, syrup, etc., colored, and pressed into a wooden mold to dry. This dried confectionery is called &#8220;Uchimono.<br \/>\nThere are various theories as to the origin of the name. One theory is that the white rice flour ground with black sesame sprinkled on it was made to resemble a flock of geese descending on snow, while another says that when a Chinese confection called &#8220;Nanrakukan&#8221; was introduced to Japan, the &#8220;soft&#8221; was omitted and the word &#8220;Rakugan&#8221; was added, and the character for &#8220;goose&#8221; was later applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese confectionery geese alighting(rakugan) dried confectionaryforged weaponry (e.g. swords, spears, etc.) Grains such as rice, azuki, soybeans, and buckwheat are milled, kneaded with sugar, syrup, etc., colored, and pressed into a wooden mold to dry. This dried confectionery is called &#8220;Uchimono. There are various theories as to the origin of the name. One theory is that the white rice flour ground with black sesame sprinkled on it was made to resemble a flock of geese descending on snow, while another says that when a Chinese confection called &#8220;Nanrakukan&#8221; was introduced to Japan, the &#8220;soft&#8221; was omitted and the word &#8220;Rakugan&#8221; was added, and the character for &#8220;goose&#8221; was later applied.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4175,4660,4917,5221],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38403","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-higashi-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-forged-items-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403","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=38403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}