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Japan's New Year decoration "Kagamimochi"

Kagami-mochi Kagami-mochi Kagami-mochi / ivva

The New Year is decorated with the thing from which omochi is a two-step pile "kagamimochi" in Japan.Japan -- from ancient times -- or -- "mirror" rice cakes are said to connect God and a human being also with what is offered to Shinto and Buddhist deities by customs.
It seems that form is also characteristic not only by what piled up common round rice cake 2 but districts, such as what was piled up three sheets, a thing piled up by red and white and different colors, and a thing which hardens sugar and it has modeled.

Decoration has a meaning, respectively.

・(mikan) Posterity needs to prosper from generation to generation.
・(gohei)   It prospers on all sides.
・(urahaku)  It prospers forever.
・(sihoue) Wish one year of prosperity.

(kagamibiraki) is performed on January 11, and it puts in Japanese food (osiruko) from ancient times, and eats.


おしるこ / Koji Horaguchi

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