cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th)

We welcome the gods to stay in our house during the new year.
We offer "Kagami Mochi" to the god.
It is believed that the god stays in the "Kagami Mochi" during the new year.

At the end of the new year, we eat the "Kagami Mochi", which is believed to have the god's spirit exists to wish good health and happiness of the family.

"Kagami Mochi" is big and hard so we need to cut it into small pieces before eating. We call this event, the way of cutting and eating, "Kagami Biraki"

We eat it as Sweet red-bean soup with mochi、Soup with rice cake.