mochi

pounding mochi

falling on one's backside ②mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday

rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf

rice cake shop keeper

kagami mochi

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam

soft skin

bracken-starch dumpling

abekawa mochi

rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves

sudden windfall

mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling ②mochi rice cake

bean-jam cake

mochi wrapped with sweet bean jam

mochikinchaku

fortifying mochi ②mochi received from one's parents after giving birth ③mochi given to a toddler on its first birthday

pie in the sky

flattened rice cakes

mooncake

rice cracker seasoned with soy sauce

thin bedding

tile-shaped rice-cracker

something useless

(blood) clot

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

steamed mochi

laccolith

to come to nothing

moist rice cracker

Japanese fortune cookie

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

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

sweet yuzu-flavored steamed dumpling

roasted mochi