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New Year.I think everyone is eating rice cakes deliciously today.Mochi has two large factions, square and circle, but which one is you?(Sentence / daytime Takashi)

■ Square mochi has been around since the Edo period

Square mochi and round cake are roughly divided into western Japan and eastern Japan.Maru cake is common in western Japan, and square mochi is common in eastern Japan.These two mochi have different manufacturing methods.

As is called "cut cake", the square mochi is cut in a bowl and cooled after cooling.On the other hand, the round mochi is a simple manufacturing method that cuts and rounds before it gets cold.

According to the theory that is often introduced in the media, it is said that round mochi was originally the mainstream.The square chicked cake became common in the Edo period.In Edo, where the population was large, rice cakes consumed a lot, and it is thought that square chopped cakes were born as a method of efficiently manufacturing rice cakes.

It is not clear who invented this cut mochi.In the Edo period, the Owari feudal lord Nobunaki Amano wrote from 1697 to 1733, the essay "Shiojiri", which touched on the customs of zoni, "Edo Kagiri -mochi -yaki, Komatsuna ヲ Kae, bonito bonito ヲ.It says soy sauce thorny dashi, salt bream back white white. "

From this, it can be seen that cut rice cakes were widespread at an early stage when the population increased in Edo.

However, there is also a description of "Kirimochi" in the diary of Tadatachi Nakayama, who served as the Minister of the Kamakura period in the early Heian period, in the early Kamakura period.I don't know if the "cut mochi" here is the same as the cut cake after the Edo period, but similar things may have been older.

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