Speed-pounding intrigue
Hamish McKenzie
Posted:
4 Feb 2010
The gentleman pictured above is speed-pounding. This is a practice we were unaware of, until receiving a press release that stated the following:
Yata Department Store welcomes Master Mitsuo Nakatami (中谷充男), founder of Nakatamidon (中谷堂) in Nara, Japan, for a mochi speed-pounding performance on 9 and 10 February, 2010. Master Nakatami is to perform a special demonstration at 12 noon on 9 February. Free tasting samples will be given out then.
And here we were thinking speed-pounding might be something else...
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