
A soft and lazy afternoon with some sweet peas and wagashi. I feel so much that I’m drawn to lately is from Pantone’s colour of 2022 Very Peri. It was the influence for my new banner and logo and flower choices.


Little bits and pieces of my 3 favourite things in Fukuoka
A soft and lazy afternoon with some sweet peas and wagashi. I feel so much that I’m drawn to lately is from Pantone’s colour of 2022 Very Peri. It was the influence for my new banner and logo and flower choices.
A little late to post, but not a reflection of how lovely my Christmas sweets were. It was a little too late in the day for caffeine so I was matcha-less for one of the first times. These came as a set and were just so pretty and perfect.
Even if it feels like a thousand years since I was in Kichi Zoh, it’s probably been a week or two. I really think they have the best namagashi in the city. This little flower was perfect.
I love a double snack day, I love eating a snack that looks like another food I’m eating. It’s summer, it’s time to eat watermelon of all varieties. Fukuoka gets pretty hot, but I love the heat and taking my matcha set into the sun for a little break from work is hard to beat. In this pic you can catch a peek of the mountains in the background, a bunch of which I’ve gotten to hike.
This was a great day with great snacks (from 兎月・Rabbit Moon).
From Tugi, a favourite shop of mine: a beautiful white hydrangea namagashi topped with dew drops and filled with tart plum paste. The filling was one of the most surprising and interesting I’ve had in a while- in a very good way! Even the texture of the outside was different, a bit more firm than usual. Beautiful and delicate and delicious as always!
Another rainy day, but the sun came out eventually and I walked over to Kichi Zoh・吉蔵. There are the cutest little flowers crawling on the roof, and they were so bright after the rain. A wagashi shaped as a new leaf around coarse red bean paste・tsubu an・粒餡 with a little raindrop on top. This must be one of the first tsubu an sweets I’ve had from them, it was a pleasant surprise!
This namagashi is a perfect imitation of a Japanese apricot, or anzu・杏子. It was filled with white bean paste and was just absolutely the mirror image of a real one. I got a new wagashi knife or kashikiri・貸切 from a cute little shop nearby.
This week has been the Golden Week holidays, a time when several national holidays fall closely together so most people get about a week off. A friend came to visit and we explored around outdoors as much as we could. Yesterday was really the first day back home so I had 2 little treats from Kichi Zoh. A beautiful purple iris namagashi and purple 団子・dango with red bean, white bean and purple sweet potato wrapped around soft mochi.
I got some really beautiful flowers that I cannot name at the florist. The blues and purples are a fun departure from my usual palette. Imagine my surprise coming home and finding I am growing raspberries! My giant branch is a raspberry bush! At the florist where I bought it, the shop owner told me the flowers would quickly wilt but the branch would last several months. She didn’t mention anything about bearing fruit! I can’t wait for my little harvest.
Another one from Kogetsudo・湖月堂, this time featuring some pretty grocery store flowers. I made the vase last week! I designed the shape digitally and uploaded it to a laser printer to cut out the wood.
I love it! Hard to beat a sweet, sunny day with a nice walk and flowers everywhere.