THE NEW YEAR

The New Year season is called “Osyogatsu” in Japanese. A major item of the New Year is “Kagamimochi” which is formed by round rice cakes of different sizes and topped with a small orange. Rice cakes are considered as a sacred thing in Japan, so Kagamimochi is offered to God. And it is said that Japanese people considered they had ​their age from God on New Year’s Day by to had the Kagamimochi’s rice cakes, in the old time.