noun:

• sushi; anything made with vinegared rice (may also contain vegetables, spices, fish, or other delicacies) - Food term ➜ 巻き寿司

noun:

• grain thief; tool for extracting rice from a bag for sampling

noun:

• box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)

noun:

• broiled eel on rice with green tea poured on top ➜ 茶漬

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

noun:

• simple chicken and rice stir fry dish (usu. flavoured with ketchup or tomato pure) - Food term - From English "chicken rice"

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

noun:

• scorch; burn; scorching
• burnt rice ➜ お焦げ【おこげ】
• part of ceramic glaze that has become dark or darkish-brown during firing

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• distorted; crooked; irregular; warped

noun / adjectival noun:

• oval; elliptical shape

noun:

• round, wooden container for cooked rice ➜ 飯櫃【めしびつ】
• oval coin

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• tamago kake gohan; raw egg mixed with white rice, often seasoned with soy sauce - slang - abbreviation ➜ 卵かけご飯【たまごかけごはん】

noun:

• law of equal division of rice fields (of ancient China)

noun:

• Asian grass frog (Fejervarya limnocharis); Indian rice frog; cricket frog

noun:

• cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th)
• traditional breaking of a sake cask at weddings, receptions, etc.

noun:

• small purification wand - archaism
• thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods) ➜ 切麻

noun:

• pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to polish (rice); to refine; to purify

noun:

• divine power; sacred power; mysterious power
• Shinriki (variety of rice) ［しんりき］

noun:

• proper time (e.g. for harvesting rice); appropriate time; right time

noun:

• tool; means
• ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.)

counter:

• counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60%

noun:

• var. of fresh Japanese sweet made of white bean paste, egg yolk, sugar and rice granules

noun:

• single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral