Time : Sunday - January 10th, 2010
Venue : Sakura Hotel Hatagaya

Experience "Mochitsuki"!! The cooked rice is pounded with wooden mallets (kine) in a traditional mortar (usu). Two people alternated the work, one pounding and the other turning and wetting the mochi. After "mochituski", we tasted the mochi! *Mochi is a Japanese rice cake.


11:00 a.m.~ 12:30 p.m. "Mochitsuki"

Strong pounding!
She did great job!
Enjoying mochi taste after their hard work

Mochitsuki is a Japanese cooking technique and the traditional mochi-pounding ceremony in Japan. It is the act of pounding steamed sticky rice, in order to make "mochi" rice cakes. We tried to do Mochitsuki in Sakura Hotel Hatagaya and it was really delicious!!

12:30 p.m.~ Experience Japanese traditional culture

Fukuwarai, or in English, "Lucky Laugh"
Calligraphy
Kamizumo (Paper Sumo)

After we gorged ourselves with many kind of Mochi, enjoyed Japanese traditional culture.

Thank you all for joining and making the event a huge success!!


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