Wagashi Quiz
Anmitsu (Agar Jelly Sundae)
Like anmitsu with all sorts of toppings in one bowl, you bring people together and add color to the gathering.
Anmitsu is a dessert of agar jelly cubes topped with red peas, gyuhi (soft rice-flour dough), fruit and sweet bean paste, with brown sugar syrup poured over it. It's mitsumame with bean paste added, and it's said to have been created in the early Showa era, around the 1930s, at a sweets shop in Tokyo. The agar itself is made from seaweed such as tengusa.
You like to bring all kinds of people and things together in one place and fill it with color and energy. You make sure that each person's character stays intact, even as everything mixes. And once someone has joined your circle, you keep up the friendship with a chewy, lasting stickiness, like gyuhi.
Anmitsu is on the menu at Japanese sweets shops whatever the season. In the same way, you care more about a place that welcomes people the same way whenever they come than about what's in fashion. But just as a bowl piled too high makes the flavors hard to tell apart, you sometimes gather too many people or plans. When you bring people together, think about the combination more than the numbers.
Strengths
- You can bring together people with different characters and liven up one place
- You can create a place where people get the same welcome whenever they visit
- You keep up friendships with people for a long time once you've connected
Where you may stumble
- You pack in so many people and plans that there's less time to enjoy each one
- Because you value the usual place, changing its shape takes you a while
- Caught up in the liveliness, you miss what the quieter people are saying
Sounds familiar, Anmitsu (Agar Jelly Sundae)?
- Every time you say “Let's all go,” the group somehow ends up huge
- After every get-together, you send photos to the people who couldn't come
- You've introduced so many people to each other that some groups now meet without you
Where you shine
Places where very different people gather, or looking after a group that's been going for years. Your color and staying power tend to create somewhere people want to come back to.
Tips for “Anmitsu (Agar Jelly Sundae)”
- When you bring people together, picture each combination one by one
- At a gathering, turn to someone who hasn't spoken yet and ask them something
- Every now and then, add one small new topping to your usual place
Matches
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Kashiwa Mochi (Oak-Leaf Rice Cake) — Kashiwa Mochi values the turning points of the seasons and keeps connections going for years. While Anmitsu gathers people in a lively crowd, Kashiwa Mochi quietly gets to know each one, so the group's roots grow deeper.
Senbei (Rice Cracker) — Senbei is unadorned, always the same, and keeps things breezy with people. For Anmitsu, who tends to pile things on, a crisp remark from Senbei is a chance to notice when the bowl is getting too full.
Monaka (Bean-Filled Wafer) — Monaka savors each moment of the season without decoration and keeps things breezy with people. Anmitsu wants to fill its usual place with a lively crowd, while Monaka wants to move lightly from one moment to the next. They like to get together in different ways, and each finds it hard to read how the other invites people.
Close neighbors
These differ from this one on just 1 of the 3 axes. If one of your axes was near the middle, you may have their side too.
Which one are you? 18 everyday situations, about 3 minutes.
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