Yatsuhashi refers to one of the Japanese-style confectioneries, and Yatsuhashi that is steamed and baked is referred to as Nama-yatsuhashi. It is unbaked yatsuhashi. I like Nama-yatsuhashi better.
There are some flavored, cinnamon(mainly), strawberry, peach, black sesame.
Yatsuhashi is a souvenir sweet of Kyoto. It is made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and cinnamon. Usually, local people did not eat it.
There are 2 different explanations as to where the name Yatsuhashi came from with one being "Yatsuhashi in Mikawa Province" where the story was set in the ninth chapter of the Tale of Ise "Kakitsubata(water irises)" and with the other being it was made into the shape of a koto after Kengyo Yatsuhashi.
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