The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...

This time, a tea party under the cherry blossoms with bracken-starch ... an ingredient for warabi mochi, following the traditional method Warabi mochi served on a plate of Hida Shunkei lacquerware ...