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Food, cooking

mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

Food, cooking

(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei

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

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

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering

grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

Word usually written using kana alone

jealousy

roasted rice cake

Idiomatic expression

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

Japanese fortune cookie

Historical term

Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

Historical term

Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

Rare term

millet dough cake; millet mochi

mochi rice cakes used as offering