Sato No Satto Kagami-Mochi with Maru-Mochi 528g

Kagami mochi is a traditional Japanese New Years decoration. It consists of two round mochi cakes, the smaller placed on top of the larger, with a daidai (Japanese bitter orange) on top of the mochi. However, when it was time to eat the mochi, it was often hard to prepare and sometimes had gone moldy. To fix these problems, modern mochi companies started to look for different ways to produce this cultural staple so that it could continue. Sato Foods took the idea one step further and put individually wrapped pieces of mochi into the Kagami-mochi shaped container to improve its ease of use. Depending on region, the traditional shape of mochi is either square or round. In west and south Japan, round is the preferred shape.