Botamochi
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Type | Confectionery, Rice cake |
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Place of origin | Japan |
Main ingredients | glutinous rice, short-grain rice, sweet red bean paste |
Variations | Ohagi |
Botamochi (ぼたもち or
Another name for this kind of confection is ohagi (おはぎ), the origin and meaning of which is a subject of debate, with some saying [1] that ohagi uses a slightly different texture of azuki paste but is otherwise almost identical. It is made in autumn and some recipe variations in both cases call for a coating of soy flour to be applied to the ohagi after the azuki paste.
The two different names are, some people say,[2] derived from the Botan (peony) which blooms in the spring and the Hagi (Japanese bush clover or Lespedeza) which blooms during autumn.
Botamochi is the modern name for the dish kaimochi (かいもち) mentioned in the Heian period text Uji Shūi Monogatari (
The proverb Tana kara botamochi (
The term is also used for a specific pattern of Bizen ware with two, three or five round marks, as if the marks of the small balls of rice cakes were left on the plate.[3][4]
See also
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References
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丸善 食品 総合 辞典 (in Japanese).丸善 . 1998-03-01. p. 116. - ^
丸善 食品 総合 辞典 (in Japanese).丸善 . 1998-03-01. p. 1014. - ^ "That's Bizen Pottery > Bizen Pottery and Its Beauty". Bizen City Okayama. Archived from the original on 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
- ^ "Bizen'yaki no yaki-iro"
備前焼 の焼 き色 . bizenyakija.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2017-04-02.