Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Peony Botan Kg626 book Design: Otafuku lady

Design: Otafuku lady

This generously-sized tabletop decorative bottle showcases the shino ware style (pocked thin white glaze allowing the natural clay color to show through and often times making it appear pink or red)

high cup 9 cm wide x 8 cm tall

29 cm wide x 9 cm tall

Kanji on the body: Hachijo Nagashi (exiled to an island) kokeshi

Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Peony Botan Kg626 book Design: Otafuku ladyVintage Japanese Kashigata, Cake and Candy Mold Japanese kashigata are hand carved wooden molds used to make higashi since the Edo period. Higashi is a broad category of wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) and is a low moisture treat made with soybean flour or rice flour, fine sugar, and other ingredients. These materials are packed tightly into kashigata molds and dried to create beautiful designs and shapes. Many of these sweets can be found in