Kindergarten children in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture experienced "kagami biraki" with kagami mochi made at the end of last year.

At the Iwata Minami Kindergarten in Iwata City, every year at the end of the year, we pound rice cakes using traditional rice cakes and mortars.



On the 11th, 34 older kindergarten children participated and first checked the hardness of the three kagami mochi that were displayed in the kindergarten.



After listening to the explanation that a god dwells in the kagami-mochi, and eating the split mochi has the meaning of receiving power from the god, we took turns breaking the kagami-mochi with a wooden mallet.

A girl who experienced kagami-biraki for the first time said, ``It was hard, but I was able to break it right away.



Kyoko Fujiwara, the principal of Iwata Minami Kindergarten, said, "I want children to learn about Japanese traditions through mochitsuki and kagamibiraki."