Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Tachibina Kg515 tea ceremony This mon features a laurel

This mon features a laurel wreath with a star at the center

bamboo leaves (take)

45 cm wide

Item weight: 347 grams

Artist Mitsuo Aida (He always wrote positive poetry)

Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Tachibina Kg515 tea ceremony This mon features a laurelVintage 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