Doraemon (ドラえもん Doraemon) is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.
The name "Doraemon" translated roughly to "stray". Unusually, the name "Doraemon" (ドラえもん) is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: Katakana (ドラ) and Hiragana (えもん). "Dora" is from "dora neko" (brazen or stray cat, どら猫), and is a corruption of nora
(stray). "Emon" 衛門、右衛門 is a component of male given names, such as
Goemon, though no longer as popular as in the past. "Dora" is not from dora 銅鑼 meaning gong, but due to the homophony, the series puns on this, with Doraemon loving dorayaki. Doraemon is addicted to dorayaki and falls for any trap involving them.
Since 2000, the company Bunmeido has been selling a limited version of dorayaki called Doraemon Dorayaki every year around March and September.
Dorayaki (どら焼き, どらやき, 銅鑼焼き, ドラ焼き) is a type of Japanese confection, а red bean pancake which consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet Azuki red bean paste.[1] [2] Dorayaki are similar to Imagawayaki, but the latter are cooked with the batter completely surrounding the bean paste filling and often served hot.
Dorayaki originally only had one layer, and the current shape was invented in 1914 by Usagiya in the Ueno district of Tokyo.[3]
In Japanese, dora means "gong", and because of the simililarity of the shapes, this is probably the origin of the name of the sweet.[2][3] Legend has it that the first Dorayaki were made when a samurai named Benkei forgot his gong (dora)
upon leaving a farmer’s home where he was hiding and the farmer
subsequently used the gong to fry the pancakes, thus the name Dorayaki.[3]
In Kansai area, such as Osaka or Nara, this sweet is often called mikasa（三笠）. The word originally means triple straw hat, but also an alternative name of Mount Wakakusa, a low hill with gentle slope located in Nara. Many local people picture the shape of this hill while eating a mikasa. In Nara, a larger mikasa of about 30 cm in diameter is famous.[4]
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