Traditionally, mochi is made right before the New Year celebrations, and is eaten during these celebrations. (Mochi is a pounded Japanese rice cake.) Here, the women at an unspecified concentration camp participate in "Mochi Tsuki," or making mochi.
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Description
1 b&w; image of mochitsuki taken at an unspecified California concentration camp. Interior of large room, women wearing aprons and with their hair tied back are working along a long table. They are rolling mochi. Finished mochi are lined up on the tables along the walls and on the tables to the R.

photograph
H: 7 3/4 in, W: 9 1/2 in

California, ca. 1942-1945

(93.102.169)

Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata

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