Here are this month's offerings of traditional Japanese sweets.

Confectionery name: "Scarlet Carp"
Orange-colored nerikiri: White bean paste filling
Price: 540 yen (tax included)

A red carp is called a "higoi."
Carp streamers gracefully swimming in the spring sky.
Traditional Japanese sweets to celebrate the Boys' Festival (Tango no Sekku)
is.
Carp streamers are a familiar sight during the Boys' Festival (Tango no Sekku).
Like a carp, overcome the difficulties you encounter in life.
I hope you will break through and rise to success.
It seems that it contains that meaning.
"I hope they grow up strong and healthy."

Looking at the lyrics of the children's song "Koinobori"
Carp streamers higher than the roof
The big carp is the father
The small red carp are children
They seem to be having fun swimming.
Huh? Where's Mom?
So that carp streamers can be flown
In the Meiji era, only boys were born.
That was apparently the historical context at the time.
Nowadays, girls and boys celebrate together.
That's right.

At the Kita family's shop, four types of traditional Japanese sweets are sold every month.
We are making (nerikiri).
Reservations and custom orders are also available.

*The image is for illustrative purposes only.