Marines experience a mochi-making ceremony in Uruma City [Image 47 of 128]

URUMA CITY, OKINAWA, JAPAN

01.08.2017

Photo by Pfc. Danielle Prentice 

U.S. Navy           

Cpl. Daniel L. Jean-Paul assists a child with a mallet while pounding rice during a traditional mochi-making event Jan. 8 at Shioya Sub-village Hall in Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan. Wooden mallets were used to pound steamed rice into a stone mortar, transforming the rice into a stretchy and sticky paste, which is used to make rice cakes called mochi. Jean-Paul is a combat correspondent with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan, and a Pembroke Pines, Florida, native. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Danielle R. Prentice)

• Date Taken: 01.08.2017
• Date Posted: 01.13.2017 00:11
• Photo ID: 3096788
• VIRIN: 170108-M-TH199-091
• Resolution: 3362x5044
• Size: 1.1 MB
• Location: URUMA CITY, OKINAWA, JP