Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Uchiwa Kg453 man Silk or No Silk: Silk

Silk or No Silk:  Silk outside of the paper

Some tiny scratches

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Syaku-tatsunyo

Good Kiso-Odori dancer

Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Uchiwa Kg453 man Silk or No Silk: SilkVintage 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