Noungrill or grate for toasting rice cakes

Nounrice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)

NounJapanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

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

Nounmoney to see one over the New Year period

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

Nounglutinous rice flour; sticky rice flour

Nounrice cake disease; blister blight

Nounlaccolith

Nounrice gruel with mochi · azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month

Nounpounding mochi

Nounrice cake disease bacteria; blister blight bacteria

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

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

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

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

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

Interjection (kandoushi)calm down

Nounsticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)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

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

Noundot tiles; circle tiles

Nounglutinous millet; sticky millet

Nounsoft skin; smooth skin

Nounglutinous rice

NounRhododendron macrosepalum · Japanese azalea (Rhododendron japonicum); renge azalea

NounJapanese pearl barley; glutinous barley; mochi mugi

Nounbean-jam cake; rice-cake sweets