About · The Shop
The Shopthe shop
An Edo-era sweets parlor in Nihonbashi-Ningyocho, founded in 1837 (Tenpo 8) and at the same place for nearly 190 years.
Founded in Tenpō 8 (1837), a sweets parlor that has stood for nearly 190 years on the same corner of Nihonbashi-Ningyōchō.
The shop takes its name, "Hatsune," from the celebrated drum — the Hatsune no Tsuzumi — of the kabuki play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura. A fitting name, our predecessor used to say, for Ningyōchō, the old district of puppet-makers and theaters.
We select domestic kanten agar, azuki, and brown sugar, and serve anmitsu and other sweets one bowl at a time, alongside gyūhi mochi made by hand.
A name from a kabuki drum
The first-voice drum Hatsune no Tsuzumi
A name borrowed from the magic drum — fitting for a side street in old Ningyōchō.