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

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

Noundot tiles; circle tiles

Nounmoney to see one over the New Year period

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

Nounglutinous millet; sticky millet

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

Nounsoft skin; smooth skin

Nounglutinous rice

Nounpounding mochi

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

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

NounJapanese pearl barley; glutinous barley; mochi mugi

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

Nounbean-jam cake; rice-cake sweets