Tokyo

An elegant dried confectioneries
resembling a cluster of wisteria blossoms / Aichi

Kagawa

Candied eggplants:Lucky 1st New Year's dreams contain Mt.Fuji, a hawk or an eggplant / Chiba

Gunma

Hiroshima

An elegant rice-cake confectionery containing kimian made of white bean paste and egg york / Hyogo

Shio yokan, with a delicate balance
of saltiness and sweetness / Nagano

Rakugan, made of soybean and
rice flour with fine, pale-yellow wasanbon sugar / Kyoto

Winter mizu yokan, a Fukui specialty made of sweet jellied bean paste / Fukui

Hollow sesame confectioneries
/ Nagasaki

Rice-cake confectioneries recalling
the plum blossoms at Kairakuen in Mito / Ibaraki

Elegant, soft-textured confectioneries served in fall / Tokyo

Dorayaki Japan's national
bean-jam confectionery / Tokyo

Yokan, exquisitely
combining green tea and azuki coloring / Tokyo

A sweet-potato confectionery from Koedo (Little Edo) Kawagoe / Saitama

Soka senbei rice crackers / Saitama

A bean confectionery praised
by tea ceremony practitioners / Kyoto

Creative bean-jam confectioneries
/ Fukushima

Chimaki, a steamed rice cake
wrapped in a bamboo leaf with the Boy's Festival / Ibaraki