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Generally speaking, tea ceremony uses two types of sweets: higashi (干菓子/乾菓子) and namagashi (生菓子).
As the name suggests, higashi is a type of dry confectionery, whereas namagashi are fresh sweets (typically moist) with a much shorter shelf-life.
Dried sweets in the shape of gourds and flowing water.
Summer sweets mimicking sweet fish nibbling on balls of moss.
Dried sweets called 'Ohara Road'. They are essentially slabs of pressed sugar and starch filled with a chewy soy flour and sugar mix.
An adorable sweet created for 'ZENBI' Kagizen Art Museum. 'Tameiki-chan' is a pointy-headed, rather melancholy-looking confection.