{"id":128221,"date":"2019-12-10T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=128221&lang=en"},"modified":"2019-12-10T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:34:21","slug":"eat-namako-mochi-on-new-years-eve-at-hakozakigu-shrine-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/eat-namako-mochi-on-new-years-eve-at-hakozakigu-shrine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Namako Mochi on New Year\u2019s Eve at Hakozakigu Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visit Hakozakigu Shrine on Dec. 31 to see one of Japan\u2019s New Year traditions, the mochitsuki<\/em>. Mochitsuki is when rice is pounded to make mochi<\/em> (rice cakes). The mochi<\/em> at this festival are in the shape of namako<\/em> (sea cucumbers). The namako mochi<\/em> are traditional and were first made after a fisherman from Hakozaki, due to lack of time, brought a sea cucumber instead of a rice cake to the birth celebrations of Emperor Ojin one New Year\u2019s Eve. Ever since, fishermen from Hakozaki assemble at Hakozakigu every New Year to pound mochi<\/em> flour together.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 12\/31 (Tue.)
\n\u2022 Start: 19:00
\n\u2022 Hakozakigu Shrine
\n\u2022 1-22-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku<\/a>
\n\u2022 092-641-7431<\/a>
\n\u2022 More information (Japanese only): https:\/\/www.hakozakigu.or.jp\/omatsuri\/#winter2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visit Hakozakigu Shrine on Dec. 31 to see one of Japan\u2019s New Year traditions, the mochitsuki. Mochitsuki is when rice is pounded to make mochi (rice cakes). The mochi at this festival are in the shape of namako (sea cucumbers). The namako mochi are traditional and were first made after a fisherman from Hakozaki…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29354,"featured_media":106036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-128221","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-higashi-ku","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/128221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}