Tag: senbei
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Hyakunin Isshu Crackers, Redux!
In Japan, gift-giving (omiyagé お土産) among friends and relatives is a common tradition, and recently a friend returned from Japan and gave us some special crackers (senbei) featuring poems from the Hyakunin Isshu. The crackers come in different flavors, and the wrapper each has a random poem. I got a curry-flavored one: The first two…
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Hyakunin Isshu crackers!
Edit: the pictures in his post are now lost unfortunately. There is a more up to date post here though if you would still like to read. My wife often gets sembei crackers from her family in Japan in the mail, and especially a package of these crackers in particular: These are Hyakunin Isshu themed…
The Hyakunin Isshu 