We interviewed a Japanese confectionery shop "Minoya", which is very close to the Hisamatsu Police Station, so we will deliver it in two parts. This time, I will introduce the shop and talk about Japanese sweets that I asked my husband, and next time I will summarize the old stories of Tomisawacho, Ningyocho, and Hamacho neighborhoods that I asked my husband's mother.
▲The back of the right is the cafe space
Minosha is a Japanese confectionery shop located near Meijiza, right next to Hisamatsu Police Station. Although it is a small shop, there is also a cafe space with 4 tables and 12 seats when you enter, and neighbors seem to be enjoying matcha sets and coffee casually.
We talked to our husband about Japanese sweets while having a matcha set (500 yen).
Minosha was founded in 1947. The founder is the current husband's grandfather, Sannosuke Ishikawa, and the origin of the name Minosha is, of course, from the name of Sannosuke. Sannosuke is said to have been trained at a Japanese confectionery shop called Tsukushi, near Ginza Shiseido. He also drew ink paintings, very dexterous hands and had an artistic sense. The current husband is the third generation. You're protecting the shop with your mother.
▲Kneading a wave-shaped pattern
Matcha set comes with matcha kneaded Japanese sweets and Sakurayu. Nerikiri is mainly handmade creative products in Kansai, and there are many wooden products in Kanto. After all, Japanese sweets have been walking along with the tea ceremony culture, so it seems that there are many famous shops mainly in Kyoto, and the artistry is also high.
The water pattern (wavy type) Japanese sweets you received this time seem to be shunned in the tea world for some reason.
He showed me some of the valuable treasures of Minosha that are currently used, and some wooden molds for cutting. It seems that all of the hundreds of wooden molds were designed by Sannosuke and ordered from a wooden mold shop. It is made of cherry trees.
▲There are various types of wood.
There are many Japanese sweets shops near Ningyocho. Used clothing stores and kimono shops, which are often found in the area of Tomizawa Town, have entered Edo from Kyoto and Oomi. It seems that a Japanese confectionery shop came along at that time, but it seems that the Japanese confectionery shop also took root because it was near Ningyocho, which was full of generalization of the tea ceremony, play shows, and visitors to the amusement park . In the Edo period, Edo Japanese sweets, which had been mainly dumplings, soup flour, rice cakes, etc. until then, were added to Kyowa confectionery, which tasted the season with color, shape, aroma, taste, and wind flow.
At Minosha, the cherry blossom rice cake was over in early April, and the current Kashiwa mochi (Koshian, miso bean paste) is until May 10, followed by a standard Japanese confectionery according to the season. Will continue. At Minosha, rice cakes and red rice are cooked in an old kettle with feathers instead of using a rice cooker. Sakura mochi (Domyoji) also conveys its unique taste with a firm texture of each grain that is not found in other stores.
▲Dorayaki with a unique gentle baked color.
▲Cherry blossom rice cake with delicious rice.
▲Koshian (left) and Misoan Kashiwa Mochi. Gentle sweetness and delicious rice cake!
The husband said, "Japanese sweets shops are difficult to work and the demand is not stable, so management is difficult. The number of people who want to become Japanese confectionery craftsmen as in the past has decreased. "
But it seems that the daughter of a high school student wants to inherit the trace. I felt like my husband's face was shining a little.
