Bocchan dango

Bocchan dango is a multi-colored variety of popular Japanese dango sweets. It consists of three balls on a skewer, each one with a different color – red, prepared with red bean paste, yellow, prepared with eggs, and green, prepared with green tea. This dango variety is often associated with the city of Matsuyama, because the sweet treat appears in Natsume Soseki’s 1906 novel Botchan. In the novel, the eponymous hero is a Tokyo academic who is posted to a school in Matsuyama, and he finds great solace in this dessert that now bears his name.