桜さくら餅もち

noun

sakura-mochi; rice cake with sweet bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf

A traditional Japanese sweet (wagashi) made of pink-colored mochi filled with anko (sweet red bean paste) and wrapped in a salt-pickled cherry leaf. The leaf is edible but often removed before eating. Commonly eaten during cherry blossom season.

• 春はるになると、和わ菓が子し屋やで桜さくら餅もちを買かいます。

  When spring comes, I buy sakura-mochi at the Japanese confectionery shop.

• 桜さくら餅もちの葉はは食たべられますが、はずして食たべる人ひとも多おおいです。

  The leaf of sakura-mochi is edible, but many people remove it before eating.