kagami mochi; New Year's rice cake offering
Traditional Japanese New Year decoration: two round mochi stacked, often with a daidai (bitter orange) on top. Typically displayed during the New Year period and later eaten in a ceremony called kagami biraki.
See also: 橙
We display kagami mochi in the alcove at New Year's.
We broke and ate the kagami mochi at the kagami biraki ceremony.