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On the 7th day of the new year, the shogun presented the Inner Palace with large cakes of pounded rice / mochi. Making and eating mochi is still a popular new year's celebration, with small mochi cakes in a vegetable stew / ozoni being a popular first breakfast of the new year season. Mochi cakes can be lightly toasted over a brazier, where they puff up into a crisp pillow-like form. Larger mochi cakes are offered to the deities, and in this print enormous mochi cake-like forms are being paraded through the palace as part of a celebration. One dancer at left carries a wooden pestle used in pounding the cooked rice; he also wears a long nosed mask on his head. Nearby another dancer has tied to his head a wooden tray with a broiled spiney lobster / Ise ebi, another of the traditional new year's foods.
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