Japanese New Year
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The Japanese New Year is an annual festival that takes place in Japan. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, Ne
The kadomatsu is a traditional decoration for the new year holiday.
Osechi-ryōri, typical new year's dishes
Zōni, a soup with mochi and grilled fish
A traditionally ornamented kagami mochi
Mochi
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Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome, a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The steamed rice is pounded into paste and
Japanese New Year
…one region are not eaten in other places (or are even considered inauspicious or banned) on New Year's Day. Another popular dish is ozōni, a soup with mochi rice cake and other ingredients, which differ in various regions of Japan. It is also very common to eat buckwheat noodles called toshikoshi soba on…
Rice cake kirimochi or kakumochi
Rice cake marumochi
Steamed rice in a stone mortar being mashed with a wooden kine (pestle) during mochitsuki
Making mochi with modern equipment