YoshiAn is a maker of Japanese wagashi for Japanese tea ceremony and for personal enjoyment. Every wagashi is carefully hand crafted with the highest standards for the utmost respect of its audience. While each wagashi is unique and one of a kind, as the idea of A Sole Encounter, we wish our wagashi bring you joy and a sense of contentment. 

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Decorative Japanese sweet on black plate with koi fish design and traditional tea cup.

What is Wagashi?

Wagashi is a general term for traditional Japanese confectionery. While its main ingredients are beans or glutinous rice with sugar, optional ingredients such as agar agar, sesame seeds, burdock, chestnuts, arrow roots, miso, and more may be added to
create varieties.

Japanese wagashi sweet on black background with red and white knotted decoration and gold leaf accents.

Nerikiri

Nerikiri is made by bean paste and sugar. Like mochi, it often has a filling. A small portion of glutinous rice is added to the outer layer as a bonding agent for shaping purpose.

Green dessert with three small chocolate toppings on a dark wooden surface.

Mochi

Mochi is made by glutinous rice with sugar. Often, a filling is added to create varieties. Filing choices include red beans, white beans, yuzu, kinkan (kumquat), kuri (chestnuts), and many more.

Japanese kashiwa mochi wrapped in pink and white mochi sheet on a black wooden plate

Yokan

Yokan is made by bean paste with sugar and agar agar. Additional ingredients such as yuzu, chestnut, kumquat, miso, and others may be added to create varieties.

Japanese dessert yokan with chestnuts on a wooden platter
A box of assorted traditional Japanese wagashi sweets, each with unique designs resembling flowers and natural motifs, arranged in a grid on a wooden surface.

A Sole Encounter

YoshiAn’s wagashi design changes with the season. Each design may be offered only a week or two as the nature and season change. While every wagashi is artisanally made, its uniqueness combines with the ever changing nature offers a true Sole Encounter experience that happens only once in a lifetime.