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

large mochi (usu. used for ceremonies)

Food, cooking

agemochi; deep-fried rice cake

Japanese pearl barley; glutinous barley; mochi mugi

Food, cooking

mame mochi; rice cake pounded with steamed black soybeans

Food, cooking

cakes made from glutinous rice and potato starch

Product name

shingen mochi (sweet made by Kinseiken)

Word usually written using kana alone

jealousy

roasted rice cake

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

Idiomatic expression

to be jealous

Idiomatic expression

pie in the sky; castles in the air; drawing of a rice cake

Food, cooking

warabimochi; sweet dumpling made from bracken starch

jealous person

Idiomatic expression

sudden windfall; unexpected piece of good luck; azuki-covered mochi (fallen) from a shelf

thin bedding; hard bed; bedding worn flat and hard by usage

rice crackers for feeding the deer (in Nara)

Food, cooking

rice cracker seasoned with soy sauce; salty rice cracker

Food, cooking

mochi wrapped with sweet bean jam

Food, cooking

kinako mochi; mochi sprinkled with sweetened soy flour

Food, cooking

sauce-flavoured rice crackers

Food, cooking

abekawa mochi; rice cake with kinako

Habutae mochi; mochi smooth and white like habutae silk

Food, cooking

fried fish bones (eaten as a snack)

sweet burdock and miso-bean paste covered with a thin layer of mochi