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Food, cooking

makizushi comprising mackerel fillet marinated in salt and vinegar, wrapped in rice and covered in shredded kombu

Food, cooking

omelette rolled together with seaweed

Proverb

if you can't beat them; join them; you can't fight city hall; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them

picture scroll depicting a famous battle

Medicine

umbilical cord coiling

vehicle accident involving a turn (e.g. when a car turns and hits a bicycle that was going straight); left-turn accident; right-turn accident; left-hook accident; right-hook accident

Food, cooking

cabbage roll

Food, cooking

California roll

Food, cooking

akumaki; traditional sweet made from glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaf and soaked in lye

garden snail (Euhadra quaesita)

Video games

tatsumaki senpūkyaku (kick attack from the Street Fighter series); hurricane kick

Organization name

Hanamaki Special Needs School (older name style)

Organization name

Ishinomaki Senshu University

Historical term

turban-like hat worn by officials in the Ryūkyū Kingdom

Rare term

picture scroll

Obsolete term; Astronomy

spiral nebula

Rare term

very beginning of a book

Rare term

coiled spring; coil spring; helical spring

fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried

Abbreviation

Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder

Archaic; Orig. meaning

black soybean sprouts fried in sesame seed oil wrapped in dried beancurd and stewed