Higashi

干菓子, dry sweets

Higashi is a type of wagashi containing very little moisture, and thus keeps relatively longer than other kinds of wagashi. Higashi, in contrast to namagashi, are a category of wagashi with any type of dry consistency. This can include rakugan, konpeitō (a type of hard candy), senbei (a type of rice cracker), arare (another type of rice cracker), and so on, though rice crackers are typically savoury, and thus not considered wagashi. Sweet higashi are roughly equivalent to Western cookies or biscuits.

Source: Wikipedia