{"id":38383,"date":"2023-02-08T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e3%81%8a%e3%81%af%e3%81%8e%ef%bc%8f%e3%81%bc%e3%81%9f%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:00:57","slug":"%e3%81%8a%e3%81%af%e3%81%8e%ef%bc%8f%e3%81%bc%e3%81%9f%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e3%81%8a%e3%81%af%e3%81%8e%ef%bc%8f%e3%81%bc%e3%81%9f%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1","title":{"rendered":"Ohagi\/Botamochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/shop\/?&#038;shop_category%5B%5D=%E5%92%8C%E8%8F%93%E5%AD%90\">Japanese confectionery<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Ohagi\/Botamochi<span class=\"ruby\">(ohagi\/botamochi)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%82%e3%82%93%e3%81%93\">red bean paste<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%8a%e5%bd%bc%e5%b2%b8\">Buddhist services during the equinoctial week<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%82%82%e3%81%a1\">mochi (glutinous rice or other grain, sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  It is made by cooking glutinous rice or a mixture of glutinous and non-glutinous rice, pounding it coarsely, and then rolling it into a ball. It is called &#8220;o-hagi&#8221; when made on the autumnal equinox to honor the spirits of ancestors, and &#8220;botamochi&#8221; when made on the spring equinox. The kanji for &#8220;o-hagi&#8221; and &#8220;botan-mochi&#8221; are &#8220;gohagi&#8221; and &#8220;botan-mochi,&#8221; respectively, which are said to be named after the autumnal hagi flower and the spring peony flower, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese confectionery Ohagi\/Botamochi(ohagi\/botamochi) red bean pasteBuddhist services during the equinoctial weekmochi (glutinous rice or other grain, sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes) It is made by cooking glutinous rice or a mixture of glutinous and non-glutinous rice, pounding it coarsely, and then rolling it into a ball. It is called &#8220;o-hagi&#8221; when made on the autumnal equinox to honor the spirits of ancestors, and &#8220;botamochi&#8221; when made on the spring equinox. The kanji for &#8220;o-hagi&#8221; and &#8220;botan-mochi&#8221; are &#8220;gohagi&#8221; and &#8220;botan-mochi,&#8221; respectively, which are said to be named after the autumnal hagi flower and the spring peony flower, respectively.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4175,4917,5080,5086,5099],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column-en","category-traditional-culture-dictionary-by-agatajapan-en","tag-wagashi-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-ohigan-en","tag-anko-en","tag-mochi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38383"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}