Wasanbon

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Wasanbon

Type	Sugar
Place of origin	Japan
Region or state	Tokushima Prefecture Kagawa Prefecture Shikoku
Main ingredients	Sugarcane plants (taketō or chikusha)

Wasanbon (和三盆) is a fine-grained Japanese sugar, traditionally made in the Shikoku prefectures of Tokushima and Kagawa, centered to the towns of Kamiita-cho and Donari-cho in Tokushima, where it has been made since about the 1770s. The sugar is often used for Japanese sweets (wagashi). The sugar is made from thin sugarcane plants (Saccharum sinense) grown locally in Shikoku, called taketō (竹糖) or chikusha (竹蔗) (locally known as hosokiki).