{"id":38463,"date":"2023-01-05T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e6%a3%b9%e3%82%82%e3%81%ae"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:00:55","slug":"%e6%a3%b9%e3%82%82%e3%81%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e6%a3%b9%e3%82%82%e3%81%ae","title":{"rendered":"Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)"},"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>Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)<span class=\"ruby\">(saomono)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%86%e3%81%84%e3%82%8d%e3%81%86\">Edo-period herbal medicine (used as an antitussive and a breath freshener)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e7%be%8a%e7%be%b9\">sweet bean jelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  The name refers to long, thin, stick-shaped Japanese confections such as yokan (sweet jelly) and uiro (sweetened soybean flour). The origin of the word &#8220;yokan&#8221; is said to have come from the name of the mold used to make yokan, which is called &#8220;fune&#8221; in Japanese, and is used for the mold to be poured and hardened. The original way to count them was to say &#8220;\u4e00\u68f9&#8221; or &#8220;\u4e8c\u68f9&#8221;, but nowadays it is more common to count them as &#8220;\u4e00\u672c&#8221; or &#8220;\u4e00\u500b&#8221;. There is a technical beauty unique to the zao-mono, such as patterns or seasonal scenes on the cross section of the zao-mono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese confectionery Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)(saomono) Edo-period herbal medicine (used as an antitussive and a breath freshener)sweet bean jelly The name refers to long, thin, stick-shaped Japanese confections such as yokan (sweet jelly) and uiro (sweetened soybean flour). The origin of the word &#8220;yokan&#8221; is said to have come from the name of the mold used to make yokan, which is called &#8220;fune&#8221; in Japanese, and is used for the mold to be poured and hardened. The original way to count them was to say &#8220;\u4e00\u68f9&#8221; or &#8220;\u4e8c\u68f9&#8221;, but nowadays it is more common to count them as &#8220;\u4e00\u672c&#8221; or &#8220;\u4e00\u500b&#8221;. There is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4175,4410,4917,5268],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column-en","category-traditional-culture-dictionary-by-agatajapan-en","tag-wagashi-en","tag-yokan-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-uiro-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463","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=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}