falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); 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; roasted rice cake
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
skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering
millet dough cake; millet mochi
grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
Kagoshima mochi made from a mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste; koraimochi
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony