 Here the mochi rice has been placed in a wooden tub and is being mushed around. |
 The individual grains of rice are still discernable in this shot. |
 Later the heavy pounding action takes place. A large wooden mallet is swung repeatedly on the glob of rice. |
 The woman in the green apron turns the glob of rice between blows. Good teamwork is required or serious injury could result.. |
 The blows are delivered with force. Onlookers are careful to keep their distance. |
 Kazuro-san is working as a vendor selling various food products made of soy bean. |
Yoshiko makes mochi at home, especially around the Christmas and New Year's hollidays. But she uses a mochi machine, similar to a bread making machine. The mochi machine does the cooking and battering itself.
I mentioned that one of the other
featured foods was hand made soba noodles, personally made by
Abe-san. The next page shows pictures of a "soba
noodle eating" competition.
Featured was a foreign competitor from California.-
You can step through the pages of this
site using the table below.
The table is arranged (left to right) in a chronological
sequence.