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The Golden Flower Candy is different from the usual Golden Flat Candy, in that it is made by melting icing sugar, pouring it into a mold and cooling it into the desired shape, and then dyeing the surface with a color or drawing a design, so the candy itself is hollow.

The traditional golden flower candy is a combination of "carp and vegetables," symbolizing the abundance of seafood and mountain products in spring, and modern shapes include flowers and various small animals; carp candy is also eaten by some families on the Men's Day because of its resemblance to the carp flag that hangs on the Men's Day of the 5th of May.

Legend has it that kumihimo (golden flower) candies began in Kanazawa Koshiro, where the culture of sweets became popular among samurai families around 1862, and because Kanazawa Koshiro had a strong martial arts culture and liked to hold large-scale and lively celebrations on festivals (which was distinctly different from Kyoto, where elegance was emphasized), a large number of kumihimo candies would be given as gifts for daughters' festivals, and some people would even decorate daisies and dolls with them; nowadays, many old people still eat them as gifts. Nowadays, many old people still give away the baby dolls together with the candies when a daughter is born in the family.

Today, wagashi is the proudest culture of Kanazawa people, and the experience of making wagashi has become a local tourist attraction.

Only a handful of stores in Kanazawa and Kyoto make wagashi by hand, and most of them can only be seen on the eve of the Daughter's Day.