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Our Japanese ancestor ate the rice, the millet, the wheat mainly, and they ate the wild nut and the fruit as sweets. The letter of sweets came from these. The thing of the fruit is sometimes said as "the water sweets" even now. It seems the beginning of Japanese sweet was wild nuts and fruits. Therefore it is generally said that the original form of Japanese sweets which is made by hand was imported sweets from Tou, which is old Chinese name, in Nara or Heian period.
We can separate four periods which are the Tou sweets period and the Tenshin period, which is sweets used for the tea ceremony, The sweets of Nanban, which is Netherlands and Portugal's sweets, period, Kyouto and Edo sweets period.
