for over 100 years,
founded in 1901 and located in Hida-Takayama, Tohoen is a historic maker
of wagashi Japanese sweets, with a process and materials that have been honed
for over a century, Tohoen creates legacy, traditional sweets but also
contemporary originals like this set of pandemic-themed wagashi aimed at
reminding people how to cope and stay safe,
clockwise from the top, amabie, ventilation,
hand-washing, face mask, no large gatherings,
pictured above is gomitsu (五蜜), a special set of
5 sweets that will go on sale for Valentine’s Day. The company hopes that
they will never have to sell this set ever again but it includes wagashi that
are modelled after the pandemic-fighting yokai amabie, the set will retail for 1500 yen, wagashi do not
preserve for very long so these are only available domestically within Japan
but you can live (eat?) vicariously through the company’s instagram
account, as they mention, hopefully making the set of pandemic-themed
wagashi will be for this year only.
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