yōkan

Noun

yokan (countable and uncountable, plural yokan)

1. A thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar, usually sold in block form and eaten in slices.
   • Looking into the cake bowl which she had brought I saw that it contained some green ‘yokan’ made from bean jelly. I think that if^([sic – meaning of]) all cakes, yokan are my favourite. […] These yokan were particularly pleasant to look at, for their green-tinged lustre made them look as though...1965, Natsume Soseki, translated by Alan Turney, chapter 4, in The Three Cornered World (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series), Chicago, Ill.: Henry Regnery Company, published...