餅

Food, cooking

mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

to fall on one's backside

Food, cooking

(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei

mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

falling on one's backside; pratfall

mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

konpeitō; small coloured sugar candy covered with tiny bulges

pounding mochi

kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11

Food, cooking

rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf

glutinous rice

adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)

mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

Food, cooking

rice cake wrapped in oak leaves

Colloquial

sleeping in a futon folded in half

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

soft skin; smooth skin

bean-jam cake

Food, cooking

rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam

something useless; picture of rice cakes

sweet yuzu-flavoured steamed dumpling

Food, cooking

rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)

kudzu starch cake

Mahjong

dot tiles; circle tiles