Overview
Okashi (お菓子, okashi) is a Japanese word that can be used for for snacks, sweets, desserts, candy, and finger foods. This article is about these Japanese kinds of food but the tag can be used on sweets and such in general.
In terms of taste, they can be sweet, such as cakes and chocolate confections, or salty or spicy, such as kaki no tane (Japanese peanuts), arare (Japanese rice crackers), beika, and potato chips.
Japanese confections are sometimes called wagashi and Western confections are called yougashi.
The genres include snacks, ices, traditional confections, local confections, and dagashi.
In many cases, the term is used to refer to luxury foods that are not suitable as main meals.
When a specific product name or brand name is used in a manga, the name or a part of the design is changed due to copyright, or a part of the name is be hidden or blurred with a finger (e.g., Umaibō → Nmaibo from Gin Tama).
