noun:

• tea gruel; tea flavoured rice gruel

noun:

• makizushi comprising mackerel fillet marinated in salt and vinegar, wrapped in rice and covered in shredded kombu - Food term

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

noun:

• famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
• sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism

noun:

• rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes
• gruel with ivy broth and finely minced Japanese yam served at large Imperial banquets

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook

noun / ~の noun:

• early ripening rice - usu. 早稲
• early-ripening fruit (grain, etc.) - usu. 早生
• person who becomes physically or mentally mature at an early age - usu. 早生

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to sharpen; to hone; to whet; to grind
• to wash (rice) - esp. 磨ぐ
• to scour; to polish; to burnish

noun:

• policeman; cop - esp. お巡り ➜ お巡りさん
• walking in a circle (dog trick) - esp. お回り
• rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.) - archaism
• vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies) - archaism ➜ おかず・女房言葉

noun:

• pure sake; pure rice wine; undiluted sake; unadulterated sake

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• distribution (e.g. films, rice)
• rationing (e.g. food, gasoline)
• food ration

noun:

• guardian deity of grain farming; guardian deity of the rice harvest

noun / ~の noun:

• late-growing rice - esp. 晩稲
• late-ripening crops; late-blooming flowers - esp. 晩生
• late developer (e.g. child who reaches puberty late); late bloomer - esp. 奥手, 晩熟

noun:

• rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

noun:

• place; spot; space
• field; discipline; sphere; realm
• occasion; situation ➜ その場
• scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
• session (of the stock market)
• area in which cards are laid out (in a card game)
• round (i.e. east, south, etc.) - Mahjong term ➜ 東場・南場・西場・北場
• field - Physics term
• field (gestalt psychology)

noun:

• scattering
• leaflets - esp. チラシ - usually written using kana alone
• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - abbreviation ➜ 散らし寿司
• writing in an irregular hand - abbreviation ➜ 散らし書き

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

noun:

• half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)

noun:

• remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting) - usu. アラ
• flaw (esp. of a person); fault; defect
• rice chaff

prefix:

• rough
• crude; raw; natural; wild

noun:

• black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice
• charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• pitch; tone; key
• time; tempo

noun / suffix:

• mood; tendency; style

noun:

• tax paid in kind (ritsuryo period); first a tax on rice fields and households, then on individuals - also 徴 - archaism

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away