Gilded Strawberry Daifuku Caramel

Professional studio product photograph of a Japanese convenience-store candy, square composition. The sealed retail package is the hero, centered and facing the camera, with two or three unwrapped pieces of the candy arranged in front of it on the surface. Seamless pastel backdrop in #FBF3E6, soft three-point softbox lighting, gentle contact shadow, tack-sharp focus, premium packshot quality. Package colors: #E24A72 with #C8A02E accents. Playful kawaii Japanese snack packaging with bold typography. The largest text on the package is the Japanese name "金箔いちご大福キャラメル"; beneath it in smaller type the English name "Gilded Strawberry Daifuku Caramel". Details: Studio product photograph, 45-degree three-quarter view, of a fictional Japanese omiyage candy box from Kanazawa. The box is a small upright matte-laminate carton, about 11 cm wide and 7 cm tall, deep indigo (Kaga-blue) with a soft velvety matte finish, edges and pattern lines printed in real metallic gold foil that catches the light. A faint gold-foil pattern of drifting snow rings and yukitsuri rope-cones runs across the indigo background. A wide strawberry-pink band with rounded corners sits across the middle of the front panel.

Exact Japanese text, crisp and legible: across the pink band in large glossy white brush-style kanji and kana, 金箔いちご大福キャラメル. Above the band, small gold serif-style type: 加賀銘菓. Below the band, a thin white line of gothic type: 二層仕立て もちとろ食感. A small gold-outlined circle in the upper right reads 12粒入, and a narrow gold banner across the bottom right corner reads 金沢限定 in indigo letters.

Mascot at lower left: a plump round white fox cub with pink strawberry-blush cheeks, closed happy eyes, and a gold-dipped tail tip, hugging a halved strawberry daifuku. A tiny caption under it in pink rounded type: こがねちゃん. Illustration style: clean flat vector with soft airbrush shading, like real Japanese confection packaging.

In front of the box, three individually twist-wrapped caramels in translucent blush-pink cellophane printed with tiny gold flecks and small indigo text いちご大福, the twisted ends crinkled and catching highlights. Beside them, three unwrapped pieces: soft rectangular caramel cubes about 2 cm, with a glossy, slightly tacky strawberry-milk shell in a warm coral pink, faint pull-marks on the surface, dusted lightly at the edges with white rice flour. One piece is torn open to show the two textures clearly: the dense chewy caramel shell stretching in thin glossy strands around a snowy, airy, powder-soft mochi center, pale white flecked with crimson freeze-dried strawberry crumbs. A few real gold-leaf flakes cling to the top of one cube, wrinkled and mirror-bright.

Lighting: soft large softbox from the upper left with a gentle warm fill, crisp small speculars on the foil and on the caramel gloss. Background: seamless cream paper (#FBF3E6) with a soft shadow, a couple of scattered gold-leaf flakes and a tiny sprig of fresh strawberry leaf for scale. Shallow depth of field, macro-sharp on the caramel pieces and the package type, high-end commercial food photography, no real brands or logos. No real-world brand logos, no watermarks, no text other than what is described, no people, no hands.