Speaking of the only sumo room in Chuo-ku, "Arashio Room". It is located near Kiyomasa Koji Temple, Hamacho Park. At this time of December, he goes around kindergartens in Chuo-ku to make rice cakes. rice cake making has been in public kindergartens at Akashi Kindergarten, Tsukishima Kindergarten, and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten since 2007 (there are no private kindergartens in Chuo-ku). It's amazing. It is a valuable experience opportunity for children to have the sumo wrestlers make rice cakes and touch each other. It is wonderful that "Arashio Room" is actively playing an active part in the community so that sumo, which is a traditional Japanese sport, can be popular with infants.
<Arashio Room>
●Master Eiji Suzuki
Born in Horinouchi-machi, Kita-Uonuma-gun, Niigata Prefecture (currently Horinouchi, Uonuma-shi)
Takashi Arashio
In June 2002, he became independent from the Tokitsukaze room, and handed down sumo wrestling and training disciples (special attention is paid to basic works such as four-legged, top, and slipped, and provides detailed guidance tailored to each individual).
●Address: 2-47-2 Nihonbashi-Hamacho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0007
●Introduction of wrestlers in the Arashio room
(* The above has been reprinted from the website with the permission of the Arashio room.)
Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten Mochitsuki Party We interviewed on December 19, 2017.
The senior group sharpened 15 go of glutinous rice from the day before mochi.
"It's white than usual rice! It's round! "I'm interested in the shape and color of the rice. It seems that some children have practiced rice sharpening at home. Looking at the sharpening juice, "It's like a Calpis! Hold it tightly and sharpen it. " Now I'm ready for rice cake making tomorrow! "The smell of rice cakes has come," and expectations for rice cake making tomorrow seem to have expanded greatly. rice cake making rice cake is about 8 hours new rice, so it is important to soak it in water from the day before.
Steamed rice cake crushed. The rice at the edge of the mortar is carefully crushed so that the mochi rice does not jump out with a pestle. rice cake making, the professional skill that makes rice cakes every year is amazing. I lift the pestle lightly, but when I experience it, it's heavy.
Well, let's make rice cakes. In the order of the younger group, the middle group, and the older group!
This is rice cake making for the first time when a younger group entered kindergarten. Because the pestle is heavy, I was able to have Pettan Pettan rice cake making with the support of a sumo wrestler. After this, he continued with the middle and senior groups, but when he grew up, he had a punch with his own power. The energetic shout of "Yoisho Yoisho" was also echoing throughout the schoolyard.
Look at making kagami mochi-It's a big mirror rice cake to decorate in kindergarten!
Seiichi Ando, an 88-year-old living in Nihonbashihamacho, made a mirror rice cake. Mr. Ando has been doing a Japanese confectionery shop called "Harugetsudo" for a long time in Nihonbashihamacho. By the time the shop was closed, confections were delivered to elementary schools and kindergartens in the city. Even after closing, I have come to the local Arima Kindergarten and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten every year to make kagami mochi. The kagami mochi made by Mr. Ando seems to have formed a round round and round shape with the wind of a small fan while the rice cake was hot, and a beautiful semicircular kagami mochi was created in no time. Indeed, the expression of God's work was perfect.
Mr. Ando taught me how to make mini kagami mochikagami mochi.
Finally, I took on the challenge of making my kagami mochi - it was my first experience, but the mini kagami mochi that can be displayed in my house during New Year's Day.
"It's difficult to make it round" "Is this okay?" The teacher in charge said, "I heard Mr. Ando's story well." Hot rice cakes became cold and hardened quickly. When it becomes hard, it struggles with rice cakes that can no longer be fixed. However, when the mirror rice cake was completed, the face was full of smiles with a sense of accomplishment. I'm a senior group of first graders soon.
Play with a sumo wrestler. The younger group, "Hokkeyo-no-ko,"
Only 3 years old. It's special. "It's expensive! High!"
"It's expensive! It's a great pleasure to ask you! What kind of world was reflected in the children's eyes?‼
I'm eating the rice cake I've been waiting for. You are chewing and eating well. Did you know that freshly-made mochi doesn't clog your throat? Mochi on a machine has a great risk of clogging the throat, but I learned from Ando that the mochi on a pestle is OK.
Have a lot of hungry sumo wrestlers!
Thank you very much from 9 to 12 o'clock. I've always been helping the PTA people from rice cake making to clean up. He's a big sumo wrestler. The freshly made rice cake is delicious. The rice cakes were gone in no time.
It is a rice cake making event that can only be realized through the great cooperation of parents, led by PTA officers. I had been carefully prepared for this day several months ago. After all, hard for cute children. The day before, I washed rice cakes and prepared early in the morning. This year, not only mothers but also fathers came to help four people. rice cake making has a lot of hard work, so it's better to have more manpower. The operation of the rice cake making party is very difficult. Even after the rice cake making meeting ends, it will take a few days to clear the mortar. We also pay attention to the maintenance of delicate mortars. Surely the smiles of today's children will blow away the tiredness of PTA officers and parents.‼
Mothers and dads are busy in the home economics room of elementary school and kindergarten staff room, steaming rice cakes.
Mothers who put kinako mochi and seaweed mochi in their children's lunch box. I was impressed by the fact that they were making freshly-made mochi for the children and sumo wrestlers who eat a lot while feeling hot.
Sokoku Raiseki, who won the Kyushu place ten cars, rushed in while he was busy.
The child was greeted by the signboard saying, "Congratulations on the Congratulations on the Congratulations on the Arashionobe and everyone's enjoy it."
Mr. Shigeru Miki, principal of Tsukishima Daiichi Elementary School, who is familiar with sumo, introduced Sokoku Raiseki, and the children also went from the classroom during the break time, saying, "Congratulations on winning the Sokoku Raiseki Juryo. I was sending a lot of ale. The children's feelings were also delivered to Sokoku Raiseki. In Chuo-ku, the “One Paku Sumo Chuo-ku Tournament” is held every year at the Chuo-ku Sports Center for elementary school students. For children, the strong Sokoku Raiseki is a familiar hero. For elementary school students in Chuo-ku, it can be said that they are a longing person.
Sokoku Raiseki was born in China and never ate rice cake. I heard from a wolf in Arashio room that I recently loved freshly cooked rice cakes when I came to Japan. Immediately, freshly cooked rice cake. I think it was very delicious.
Finally, I spoke to your wife. Yuka Suzuki served as a member of the Board of Education in Chuo-ku until last year. It is a valuable experience for children to interact with many wrestlers since the children of Chuo-ku were young, so today we brought 10 wrestlers to rice cake making. Kindergartens in Chuo-ku, which enjoy such benefits every year, are blessed. Elementary school at Tsukishima Daini Elementary School, rice cake making, and Waseda University. I hear that rice cake making can't increase any more because it overlaps in December. That's right.
I wish the wrestlers of the Sokoku Raiseki and Arashio rooms more and more active, and I would like to continue to support the Arashio room.
(I photographed with the permission of Arashio room and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten.)
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In the Arashio room, you can freely observe the training every morning. When you pass near you, the window of the rehearsal hall is also large, so please take a look at it.
The annual "Beethoven Ninth Concert" at the end of the year.
The reason is that
I'm going to see it.
