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wagashi; traditional Japanese confectionery
small-time candy store
cheap sweets
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
cake served with tea; teacake
Western confectionery
candy; sweet; confectionary
snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie
Japanese-style confectionary store
jelly dessert; fruit
fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste); fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)
dried candies; dried confectionary; cookies
candy made from wheat gluten; wheat-gluten snack
bean-jam cake
Western confectionery
Japanese-style confectionary store
confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized
small bag of snack food (cookies, potato chips, etc.)
high-grade Japanese fresh confections (usu. colorful sculpted mochi in seasonal designs around bean paste)
Japanese sweet eaten with koicha
traditional Kyoto-style confectionery (often used in tea ceremony)
puffed cereal
steamed confection (e.g. manjū, uirō, steamed yōkan); steamed cake
Japanese sweets made of bean paste
deep-fried Chinese pastry (sweetened with jiaogulan)
local sweets (sold as a souvenir)
semiperishable sweets; half-dry confectionery
fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)
sweets for offering at the Dolls' Festival
fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)
ornamental gift cakes
Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)
cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering