noun:

• sake made from rice or other cereal which is chewed before fermentation

noun:

• type of sushi with vinegared fish and rice lightly pressed overnight

noun:

• New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls ➜ 餅【もち】・繭玉

noun:

• himedaka; gold-colored breed of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) ➜ メダカ

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ おじや

noun:

• Korean alcoholic beverage made from flour or sticky rice; makkolli; makgeolli - From Korean "maggeoli"

noun:

• hinomaru bento (contains plain white rice with a single red umeboshi on top)

adjectival noun:

• juicy (i.e. having lots of juice or liquid)

noun:

• Okinawan rice gruel meal ➜ 雑炊

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• glutinous rice steamed with red beans or some other ingredient - Food term ➜ 赤飯・強飯【こわめし】
• trickery; deception - archaism

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Kansai dialect - Food term ➜ どぶ漬け【どぶづけ】

noun:

• skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

noun:

• flowers and water offered to Buddha - Buddhism term
• irrigation of a rice field during flowering

noun:

• onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori) - polite language

noun:

• Venus (planet) - abbreviation ➜ 太白星
• thick silk thread
• refined sugar
• white rice jelly - abbreviation ➜ 太白飴
• variety of sweet potato

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

noun:

• type of soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour (somewhat similar to Turkish delight)

noun:

• type of soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour (somewhat similar to Turkish delight) - orig. written as 牛皮 ➜ 求肥飴

noun:

• paella (Spanish rice dish)

noun:

• tteokbokki; ddeokbokki; stir-fried rice cake, meat, eggs, seasoning, etc. - From Korean

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term ➜ 押し鮨【おしずし】

noun:

• dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)

noun:

• mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)