{"id":35611,"date":"2015-12-11T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=35611"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T02:36:31","slug":"sumo-wrestlers-join-students-at-annual-mochi-pounding-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/35611","title":{"rendered":"Sumo wrestlers join students at annual mochi pounding gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Okuma Garden: December 4, 2015<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_01.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumo wrestlers from the Arashio stable participated in this year\u2019s event<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_02.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait in line for freshly pounded mochi (rice cake)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_03.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators cheer as sumo wrestlers pound away<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_04.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On December 4, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/cjl\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Center for Japanese Language (CJL)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Community Center (ICC)<\/a> hosted its annual \u201cMochi Pounding Event.\u201d Mochi (rice cake) pounding gatherings are a Japanese new year\u2019s tradition and the event is an excellent opportunity for international students to experience Japanese culture.<\/p>\n<p>This year we welcomed sumo wrestlers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/arashio.net\/\">Arashio stable<\/a>. Spectators cheered and international students looked on with great interest as the wrestlers donning nothing but a loincloth powerfully pounded away at mochi. Students waited in line to get their hands on delicious freshly pounded mochi and warm tofu and vegetable chowder.<\/p>\n<p>The event held in Okuma Garden under the winter sky was a great success and the energy from sumo wrestlers and international students kept participants warm despite the cold weather. It was great to see the smiles of international students as they experienced Japanese culture and enjoyed the taste of mochi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Okuma Garden: December 4, 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On December 4, the Center for Japanese Language (CJL) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-35611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-campus_scenes-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35673,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions\/35673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}