{"id":38426,"date":"2023-01-22T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e3%80%8c%e3%81%86%e3%81%90%e3%81%84%e3%81%99%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1%e3%80%8d%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af%ef%bc%9f%e3%81%a9%e3%81%ae%e5%ad%a3%e7%af%80%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8a%e8%8f%93%e5%ad%90%ef%bc%9f"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:51","slug":"%e3%80%8c%e3%81%86%e3%81%90%e3%81%84%e3%81%99%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1%e3%80%8d%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af%ef%bc%9f%e3%81%a9%e3%81%ae%e5%ad%a3%e7%af%80%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8a%e8%8f%93%e5%ad%90%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e3%80%8c%e3%81%86%e3%81%90%e3%81%84%e3%81%99%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1%e3%80%8d%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af%ef%bc%9f%e3%81%a9%e3%81%ae%e5%ad%a3%e7%af%80%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8a%e8%8f%93%e5%ad%90%ef%bc%9f","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Uguisumochi&#8221;? Which season is it?"},"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>What is &#8220;Uguisumochi&#8221;? Which season is it?<span class=\"ruby\">(Uguisumochi)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%82%e3%82%93%e3%81%93\">red bean paste<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%8d%e3%81%aa%e3%81%93\">soy flour<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%98%a5\">spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  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 &#8220;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 &#8220;Spider&#8217;s Thread Scroll,&#8221; an essay by Santo Kyozan, a late-Edo period playwright, &#8220;Uguisumochi&#8221; was widely popular as an early spring sweet along with sakura-mochi and others by the end of the Edo period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese confectionery What is &#8220;Uguisumochi&#8221;? Which season is it?(Uguisumochi) red bean pastesoy flourspring 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 &#8220;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 &#8220;Spider&#8217;s Thread Scroll,&#8221; an essay by Santo Kyozan, a late-Edo period playwright, &#8220;Uguisumochi&#8221; was widely popular as an early spring sweet along with sakura-mochi and others by the end of the Edo period.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4175,4194,4917,5086,5105],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38426","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-spring-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-anko-en","tag-kinako-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426","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=38426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38426"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}