Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Wheat Gluten Kg690 Tokoname ware traditional art

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Red and black paper

This porcelain teacup has an elegant crackled light green glaze and is decorated with pictures of round coins with a square hole in the center in black and reddish brown colors

It also has slices of raden (abalone shell) included in the design for extra shimmer and detail

Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Wheat Gluten Kg690 Tokoname ware traditional artVintage 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