Japanese squirrel sweets are an adorable autumn-only nerikiri treat【Photos】
Traditional sweets shop with over 70 years of history handcrafts Risu. Okamedo is a confectioner based in the town of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, whose name comes from kame, the Japanese word for turtle, and which was founded more than 70 years ago. And as those aspects would lead you to expect, there’s a stylized drawing of a turtle on the noren entrance cloth hanging at Kamedo’s main shop, and the company puts quite a lot of effort into not only making their sweets taste good, but look beautiful too, soranews24.com. For their newest treats, though, a different animal is serving as Okamedo’s muse, and while you could call them beautiful, the first word that’s going to spring to mind upon seeing them is “Cute!” OK, so maybe “cute” will be the seventh word, as in “Oh my God, those are so cute!” But still, “cute” is definitely going to be part of the mental reaction when people see Okamedo’s Risu, which went on sale this month. Risu, as you might have guessed, is the Japa...