{"id":47289,"date":"2016-12-13T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=47289"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:23:41","slug":"international-students-and-sumo-wrestlers-at-annual-mochi-pounding-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/47289","title":{"rendered":"International students and sumo wrestlers at annual mochi-pounding event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okuma Garden, 12\/5\/16<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161213_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guest sumo wrestlers from the Arashio stable<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161213_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrestlers powerfully pounding away<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161213_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">International students pounding mochi<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161213_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants enjoying mochi and <em>kenchin-jiru<\/em> (tofu and vegetable chowder)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On December 5, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cjl\/en\/\">Center for Japanese Language (CJL)<\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/en\/\"> International Community Center (ICC)<\/a> hosted its annual &#8220;Mochitsuki (mochi-pounding) Event.&#8221; Mochi (rice cake) pounding gatherings are a Japanese new year&#8217;s tradition, and the event is an excellent opportunity for international students to experience a part of Japanese culture.<\/p>\n<p>Following last year, the University welcomed sumo wrestlers from the Arashio stable to the event. International students took great interest as the wrestlers, wearing only a loincloth, powerfully pounded away mochi, and at the photo booth, they gathered to take photos with the wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>Mochi pounding was also open to participants, and it was memorable to see many international students try this with a smile on their face as staff members gave instructions and advice.<\/p>\n<p>The day was blessed with beautiful weather, and international students enjoyed freshly pounded, soft mochi flavored with seaweed, <em>anko<\/em> (sweet beans) and <em>kinako<\/em> (roasted soybean flour), as well as warm <em>kenchin-jiru<\/em> (tofu and vegetable chowder).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okuma Garden, 12\/5\/16 On December 5, the Center for Japanese Language (CJL) and the International Community Ce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-47289","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\/47289","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=47289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47361,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47289\/revisions\/47361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}