Silent Sunday: Pounding and Drumming to the Beat of the New Year

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  1. […] mallet) striking an usu (stone mortar), far off in the distance. Though unlikely, the tradition of making mochi for oshogatsu is so ubiquitous in Japanese culture, it would be unthinkable for anyone immersed in […]

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