Camellia Tea Ceremony
🌸SUGAR BLOSSOMS🍬
As delicate as glass, cherry blossom-shaped 'ariheitō' (有平糖) are some of the most stunning sweets served this season in the tearoom.
This type of sugar candy was brought to Japan by the Portuguese at the end of the Muromachi period.
Alféloa, 'a sweet of sugar/molasses', was the first hard candy imported to Japan.
Japanese ariheitō' (有平糖) reached its golden age in the Edo period.
The Ueno fruit store Kanazawa Tango (金沢丹後) were so skilled that people could not tell sugar butterflies from the real thing.