Popular versions during this holiday include Hishi and Sakura mochi, both of which feature a color or colors significant to Doll's Day: Green, pink, yellow, or white.

This holiday season, it is taking on a particular significance. Fugetsu-Do, the mochi confection shop that Kito’s family has owned since 1903, will turn 100 next year, a cause for celebration in ...

We look forward to sakura mochi every year, and it just was kind of insulting to see somebody say that none of these other restaurants ‘get it.’ [Shibumi is] the only one [that] ‘gets it ...

Stuff mochi ball with sweet bean filling. Repeat 800 times a day. Photo: Anna Mindess. Tom and Judy make 18 different kinds of manju and mochi, including a wildly popular variety for the traditional ...

The four ingredient treat has a dollop of sakura flavored sauce in the middle, encircled by pink mochi balls sitting on a layer of sakura petal laced red bean paste covering the sakura ice cream.