A priest uses a forklift to transport an enormous kagami mochi decoration to be offered to a deity at Yasuzumi Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture on Monday. The three-layered mochi -- the top layer was to be added later in a hall by miko shrine maidens -- is about 90 centimeters high and weighs about 700 kilograms. The bottom layer is about 110 centimeters in diameter. This tradition began in 1982, when the shrine offered a giant mochi to give thanks for a plentiful harvest of grain.
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