島根県·和菓子
Wakakusa (Saiundo)
Soft gyuhi enveloped in a pale, spring-green crumble. With a single bite, the plump umami of glutinous rice and a subtle scent of grass herald the arrival of spring. One of the three great famous confections of Matsue, produced by Saiundo in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture. It is a tea sweet favored by Matsudaira Fumai, the seventh lord of the Matsue Domain, who was renowned as a tea master. After his death, the production method had been lost, but the first generation of Saiundo brilliantly restored it during the mid-Meiji era. The process involves hand-coating gyuhi—made by stone-milling glutinous rice from Okuizumo—with kanbai-ko crumbles. The sweetness is subtle and elegant. When enjoyed with a bowl of tea, it feels as though you can taste the very changing of the seasons flowing through the castle town.
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