“New Year’s Mochi Making at Kodo Village” by Shingo Kawamura

Jan. 14, 2017

New Year’s Mochi Making at Kodo Village

As you can see, Kodo Village is covered in deep snow and has been since we returned from our winter vacation.

Despite the cold conditions, we are all keeping well!

Today we enjoyed one of Kodo Village’s annual events: mochi making.
Mochi is a traditional Japanese pounded rice cake.

The young members did a lot of the rice pounding and the village was buzzing as everyone excitedly enjoyed the freshly made mochi.
This Japanese soul food gave us all a boost to start the new year.

On behalf of Kodo, I will take this opportunity to ask all of you for your continued encouragement throughout the new year ahead!