金きん鍔つば焼やき

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Meanings

noun

kintsuba-yaki; sweet bean paste wrapped in wheat dough, shaped like a sword guard

A traditional Japanese confection (wagashi) consisting of sweetened azuki bean paste encased in a thin wheat-flour dough and grilled. The name comes from its resemblance to a sword guard (tsuba).

老舗しにせの和わ菓が子し屋やで金きん鍔つば焼やきを買かった。

I bought kintsuba-yaki at a long-established Japanese confectionery shop.

金きん鍔つば焼やきは、あんこがたっぷり入はいっていて食たべごたえがある。

Kintsuba-yaki is filled with plenty of sweet bean paste and is quite satisfying.

Kanji

金gold
鍔sword guard, kettle brim
焼bake, burning

Related words

今いま川がわ焼やき
Imagawayaki is a similar grilled confection, but it uses a pancake-like batter and is typically round, while kintsuba-yaki uses a thinner wheat-flour dough and is shaped like a sword guard.
たい焼やき
Taiyaki is a fish-shaped cake made from similar batter to imagawayaki, whereas kintsuba-yaki is distinguished by its sword-guard shape and thinner dough.

Built from

金きん鍔つば+焼やく

Written forms

金きん鍔つば焼やき
Standard kanji spelling for this traditional confection.
金きん鍔つば焼やき
Variant spelling without okurigana, also seen in shop signs and product names.

Etymology

The confection was formerly called 銀鍔 because its round shape resembled a silver sword guard. In Edo, a wheat-flour version grilled on its sides became known as 金鍔.