餅

Food, cooking

mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

餡餅 only; Female

mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling; mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam

あんも only

mochi rice cake

pounding mochi

Proverb

every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop

rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)

bean-jam cake

New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls

money to see one over the New Year period

mochikinchaku; glutinous rice in a pouch of fried tofu, used in oden

throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building

glutinous rice flour; sticky rice flour

throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building

grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

Geology

laccolith

Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday

Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu

rice cake disease; blister blight

rice cake disease bacteria; blister blight bacteria

custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

to fall on one's backside

Food, cooking

(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei

Word usually written using kana alone

jealousy

roasted rice cake