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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

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

Idiomatic expression

to be jealous

Idiomatic expression

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

glutinous rice

Food, cooking

warabimochi; sweet dumpling made from bracken starch

adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

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

jealous person

Idiomatic expression

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

skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

soft skin; smooth skin

Food, cooking

rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam

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

something useless; picture of rice cakes

sweet yuzu-flavoured steamed dumpling

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