菓

bean-jam cake

cake dish

candy made from wheat gluten; wheat-gluten snack

five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)

五果 only; Buddhism

five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships

五果 only; Buddhism

five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life

bowl for confectioneries

cake box

small bag of snack food (cookies, potato chips, etc.)

chilled dessert; frozen dessert

sweets; sweetmeats; confectionary; candy

quality cakes

traditional Kyoto-style confectionery (often used in tea ceremony)

Food, cooking

Japanese sweet eaten with koicha

cake tray (dish)

rice cracker

deep-fried Chinese pastry (sweetened with jiaogulan)

tablet candy; tablet-shaped sweets

Humble

refreshments (implied to be low-grade)

Japanese confectionery store (orig. one of high standing, supplying the imperial court, etc.); Japanese confectionery maker

sweets for offering at the Dolls' Festival

milk-based candy; sweet made with milk

cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering

Hanafuda; 菓子 is an ateji "pun" on 貸し

card (oft. featuring illustrations of sweets) used to represent money when gambling

food sold with a toy

small-time candy store; penny candy store