今月の御菓子：水無月
もうすぐ一年の折り返し！
半年の間に身についた穢れや災いを祓うために行われていた儀式では、冬の間に「氷」の欠片を食し、厄払い・暑気払いとしていたそうです！🧊
「水無月」は、この氷になぞらえて広まった御菓子です！
本作に登場する御菓子は、「京菓匠 鶴屋吉信」謹製の実物を3Dスキャンによって再現しています！✨
Japanese Sweets of the month: Minazuki
We’re almost halfway through the year! In ancient purification rituals meant to cleanse the impurities and misfortunes accumulated over the past six months, people would eat shards of 'ice' during the winter as a way to ward off evil and beat the summer heat. Minazuki is a traditional sweet inspired by those ice shards!
The sweets featured in #Kunitsu_Gami are beautifully recreated using 3D scans of real confections crafted by the renowned confectioner in Kyoto Tsuruya Yoshinobu! ✨
A confection made of a steamed rice flour topped with red beans. A festival of purification is held on the eve of Minazuki, the sixth month, which marks the halfway point of the year. On this day, the noble class in the ancient capital would eat ice shards as a way to purge the defilement and misfortune, as well as to cool down in the early summer heat. Ice cellars were built on mountains to store winter snow just for this purpose. This tradition would spread around the ancient capital through a confection cut into triangular shapes, just like an ice shard. The color of the red bean topping is also said to ward off evil. The springy texture of steamed rice flour and the rich flavor of the red beans combine to make a mouth-watering treat.
