Kagami mochi ; Japanese traditional new year decoration
Kagami mochi,literally mirror rice cake, is a traditional Japanese New Year decoration. It usually consists of two round mochi (rice cakes), the smaller placed a top the larger, and a mikan (a Japanese bitter orange) with an attached leaf on top.
Further to this, it may have a sheet of konbu and a skewer of dried persimmons under the mochi.
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It is traditionally broken and eaten in a Shinto ritual called kagami biraki (mirror opening) on the second Saturday or Sunday of January.
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