Wakasakura no oyaki

About Wakasakura no oyaki

The “Wakasa Shrine Grand Festival,” which is held at the beginning of May every year, has a history of about 400 years, and the “Wakasamatsuri” held on May 3 every two years features a mikoshi, a procession, and a lion dance. Oyaki is that hospitality dish. It is said that parishioners made yaki with wormwood for each house since ancient times, and in the evening, the scent of baking this oyaki on an iron plate drifted around the town. It has been handed down to dedicate it to a shrine to pray for the peace of the country and a good harvest of five grains, and offer it to a shrine.
Speaking of oyaki, Nagano prefecture is famous nationwide in which ingredients such as vegetables are wrapped in dough made from wheat flour and buckwheat flour, but oyaki in Wakasa Town, Tottori prefecture is made of glutinous rice and non-glutinous rice flour mixed with azuki beans. It is a confectionery wrapped in bean paste.

It is said that “Wakasa no oyaki” was made in each household using a turtle shell shaped press mold engraved with the letters “large” or the name of the store that has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is said that it was behaved by visitors and relatives. Currently, the custom of handmade oyaki has faded, and it is less often made at home, but it has been popular for a long time as a souvenir of Wakasa-cho and a souvenir for Wakasa Benten Shrine.

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