Mochi Making 2022 Guadalupe Buddhist Church
The Guadalupe Buddhist Church Community comes together every year to continue the generations long tradition of mochi making in honor of the New Year.
Traditionally, mochi is made by pounding steamed short-grain Japanese sticky rice, called mochigome, with a wooden mallet during a ceremony called mochitsuki. Today mochi making has been modernized as you can see with the photos and videos below.
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