New Year's Foods

2026 has started. May the new year bring you happiness, health and peace.

Mochi (rice cake, 糯米年糕) on pine needles and salmon.

I would like to show you some traditional and new foods below.

Nishime （煮〆）with carrot, radish, lotus root and chicken boiled with soy sauce.

The top yellow ones are herring roe (数之子）. The right is black soybeans（黒豆）. The right bottom is the sliced and vinegared carrot and radish topped with salmon roe（紅白膾）.

The upper right is duck, the bottom is vinegared fish and the left bottom is shrimp.

The top right is walnut, the right is shrimp and the two green fruits at the bottom is candied peaches.

Clockwise from the top: boiled fish paste in a sliced shape (蒲鉾）, rolled omelet mixed with fish paste, vinegared octopus (伊達巻）, candied kumquats (金柑砂糖漬） and pickled vegetables with herring roe and wasabi (山海漬）. The center is the mashed sweet potatoes with chestnuts (栗金団）.