Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Fish Basket Kg593 lidded bucket It features a scene from

It features a scene from Kyoto's famous Gion Festival (matsuri) of participants pulling along a grandly-decorated cart called "dashi"

true to the shunkei-nuri style of lacquerware

with a handpainted makie image of a blooming chrysanthemum with leaves in gold and brown

Each cylinder vase has a removable black metal base with 3 legs

The whole chain is held together by a dark brown string braided at the base of the main bead and hangs down with a single brown tassel

Japanese Wood Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Fish Basket Kg593 lidded bucket It features a scene fromVintage 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 still be