Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Bamboo Shoot Kg574 Hanko Small chips on the bottom

Small chips on the bottom

Marks and wrinkles on cover

Item weight: 1367 grams

This small set has a drawer that holds miscellaneous items essential to tea ceremony

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Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Bamboo Shoot Kg574 Hanko Small chips on the bottomVintage Japanese Kashigata, Cake and Candy Mold Japanese kashigata are hand carved wooden molds used to make higashi since the Edo period. Higashi is a broad category of wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) and is a low moisture treat made with soybean flour or rice flour, fine sugar, and other ingredients. These materials are packed tightly into kashigata molds and dried to create beautiful designs and shapes. Many of these sweets can be found in