Wagashi, traditional Japanese sweets, are more than just delightful treats; they are a portal into Japan’s illustrious past.

A confectioner in Kyoto creates her own recipes for the sweets known as wagashi. By Vivian Morelli KYOTO, Japan — On a recent Saturday morning, Sayoko Sugiyama was busy making some warabi mochi ...

Traditional Japanese teatime sweets, known as wagashi, are in a league of their own. While western desserts are often equated with excess and indulgence, the dainty wagashi instead calls for quiet ...

She covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups, and the people powering them. Wagashi is a style of Japanese confections made from rice flour, beans, sugar, and water, that date back thousands of years.

Hiromori, a 5th-generation wagashi (traditional Japanese confectionery) maker, takes a little ball of red bean paste and wraps it with a dough made from white bean paste and rice flour.

Tsuchida, 36, started making her own wagashi in the 2010s while working at a Japanese sweet shop ... Yi-Chin Lee is a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle. Lee joined the Chronicle ...