Wasanbon

Wasanbon is a fine-grained Japanese sugar, traditionally made in the Shikoku prefectures of Tokushima and Kagawa, centered to the towns of Kamiita-cho and Donari-cho in Tokushima, where it has been made since about the 1770s. The sugar is often used for Japanese sweets . The sugar is made from thin sugarcane plants grown locally in Shikoku, called taketō or chikusha .