Toshib’s English diary

Hi. nice to meet you. I am Toshib. I live in Okayama in Japan. Okayama is 551 km East from Tokyo. I like to play a guitar and harmonica. I am a supermarket clerk now. I have a dream. I want to travel abroad. I will write articles on my blog about my trip

Do you know the KAGAMIMOCHI?

Do you know the kagamimochi?

It is Japanese traditional rice cakes for a happy new year.

It is constructed with a big rice cake and a small rice cake and an small orange.

Recently many small rice cakes in the case shaped looks like a kagamumochi.

We can see many products about Christmas at a supermarket in this season, and also kagamimochi in Japan.

 

Kagamimochi is written as 鏡餅 in Japanese.

In ancient times, a mirror is said to be one of three god's tools.

And god is in everything in Japan.

It is said eight millions gods is there, written as 八百万の神々 in Japanese.

That is he reason, Kagamimochi is a place for yearly god.

 

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