to fall on one's backside; to land on one's rear
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
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
jealousy; yakimochi (roasted rice cake)
adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi
mochi wrapped with sweet bean jam
every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; (lit.) for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop
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
warabimochi; sweet dumpling made from bracken starch
skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
pie in the sky; castles in the air; (lit.) drawing of a rice cake
rice cake wrapped in oak leaves; sleeping in a futon folded in half
rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)
rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort; mugwort rice cake
sudden windfall; unexpected piece of good luck; (lit.) azuki-covered mochi (fallen) from a shelf
bean-jam cake; rice-cake sweets
rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam
zunda mochi; mochi covered in zunda
kudzu starch cake; pudding-like arrowroot cake
rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)
Habutae mochi; mochi smooth and white like habutae silk
mame mochi; rice cake pounded with steamed black soybeans
mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling; mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam; mochi rice cake
kinako mochi; mochi coated in sweetened soy flour
New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls
millet dough cake; millet mochi
abekawa mochi; rice cake with kinako
rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them
mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried
fortifying mochi; mochi that improves one's strength; mochi received from one's parents after giving birth; mochi given to a toddler on its first birthday
sweet burdock and miso-bean paste covered with a thin layer of mochi
rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
agemochi; deep-fried rice cake
day-of-the-Boar mochi (made with new grains)
mochikinchaku; glutinous rice in a pouch of fried tofu, used in oden
money to see one over the New Year period
cakes made from glutinous rice and potato starch
offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering
throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building
chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste
mochi soaked in water (to protect against mold); rice cakes preserved in water
glutinous rice flour; sticky rice flour
mochi filled with red bean paste and topped with green soy flour
cake made from pounded horse chestnuts and mochi rice
anko-coated mochi (from Ise, Mie pref.)
throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building
grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
rice gruel with mochi; azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month
millet dough cake; millet mochi
mochi freeze-dried in the winter air
turnip cake (dim sum dish); radish cake
small mochi placed on top of a big mochi; two things heaped together
Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)
fried mochi covered in soy sauce and wrapped in nori
roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, or sweetened with sugar, etc.)
red and white oval rice cakes
doyō mochi (mochi made during the dog days of summer)
mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year
karamimochi; mochi topped with grated daikon, soy sauce, etc.
Japanese pearl barley; glutinous barley; mochi mugi
custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday
rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame
large mochi (usu. used for ceremonies)
eating a lot, drinking a lot, and on top of that, eating mochi
mochi containing red bean paste
red and white egg-shaped mochi
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
keep your jealousy in check, lest you invite misfortune; (lit.) even if you burn yakimochi, don't burn your hands as well
kōraimochi; Kagoshima mochi made from a mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste
mochi with sanshō (Sichuan pepper)
rice cake disease; blister blight
custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday
rice cake disease bacteria; blister blight bacteria
lotus root-starch dumpling
mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)
sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu
glutinous millet; sticky millet
Rhododendron macrosepalum; (arch.) Japanese azalea (Rhododendron japonicum); (arch.) renge azalea
mochi rice cakes used as offering