Imagawayaki
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Imagawayaki (今川焼き?) is a Japanese dessert often found at festivals and other places that one might, in America, find funnel cake. It is made of batter in a special pan (similar to a waffle iron but without the honeycomb pattern), and filled with sweet azuki bean paste, although it is becoming increasingly popular to use a wider variety of fillings such as potato and mayonnaise.
Imagawayaki began to be sold near the Kanda Imagawabashi bridge during An'ei years (1772 - 1781) in the Edo period. The name of Imagawayaki originates from this time.
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[edit] Various names
Imagawayaki has various names by areas and eras.
- Ōban'yaki (大判焼き?) — is used in most areas.
- Kaiten'yaki (回転焼き?) — is major in Kansai and Kyūshū region.
- Nijyūyaki (二重焼き?)
- Gishiyaki (義士焼き?)
- Tomoeyaki (巴焼き?)
- Koban'yaki (小判焼き?)
- Taikoyaki (太鼓焼き?)
- Bunkayaki (文化焼き?)
- Taishōyaki (大正焼き?)
- Jiyūyaki (自由焼き?)
- Kaiten manjū (回転饅頭?)
- Taiko manjū (太鼓饅頭?)
- Fūfu manjū (夫婦饅頭?) or Fū man (フーマン?)
- Oyaki (おやき?) — is different from "oyaki" in Nagano Prefecture.
- Kintsuba (きんつば?) — is in some of Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture, and different from "kintsuba" of wagashi.
[edit] By the store or the company
- Gozasōrō (御座候?) — is a product name of Gozasōrō Inc which was established in 1950 in Himeji. It means "thank you for the purchase" in an archaic style.[1]
- Higiriyaki (ひぎりやき?) — is a product name of Sawai Honpo Inc in Ehime. It originates in Higiri jizō near the Matsuyama station.[2]
[edit] Historical and inactive
- Fukkōyaki (復興焼き?) — The song on the occasion of the revival after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, is mentioned that imagawayaki was renamed fukkōyaki.[3]
[edit] References
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) "Between Kaiten'yaki, Ōban'yaki and Imagawayaki" by Tsutomu Kushima. He is an investigator of the popular culture of Shōwa period.
- (Japanese) Nijyūyaki Jōhō
- (Japanese) Gozasōrō Inc.
