Frederiksen Photography

Hogetsu Bakery

Time to make the mochi. Mr. Takeda wakes up early every morning to make sweet mochi, a traditional Japanese rice cake. He and his wife own Hogetsu Bakery in Chula Vista, California, and have been serving the community here for 37 years. Mochi making is a work of beauty, grace, precision and sweat. It’s about putting in the work and taking your time to create. This approach to mastering an art like mochi is deeply rooted in the Japanese, ‘do’ (道). Do means the way, the path, and expresses progress in the practice of an art, whatever it may be. The concept of do originated in Zen Buddism and has become deeply anchored in Japanese culture. The series of pictures is my ode to Japanese cultural heritage and food practices.

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