noun:

• cooked white rice - term used during the food shortages after WWII - colloquialism

noun:

• flour made from cooked glutinous rice

noun:

• sake; Japanese rice wine - colloquialism ➜ 日本酒【にほんしゅ】

noun:

• rice noodles

noun:

• arborio rice (Italian variety)

noun:

• tax-exempt rice field (ritsuryo system) ➜ ゆそでん

noun:

• punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to round up; to gather; to muster; to mobilize; to mobilise

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun:

• cooked rice
• meal; food
• one's livelihood

noun:

• rice (esp. when served on a plate) ➜ ライスカレー

noun:

• color of water after washing rice (colour)

noun:

• reduction in area of rice under cultivation

noun:

• stack of rice straw; rick; cock

noun:

• something useless; picture of rice cakes [literal] ➜ 画餅に帰す【がべいにきす】

noun:

• rice boiled with soy sauce and sake

noun:

• salted rice-bran paste for pickling - Food term ➜ 糠味噌漬け

noun:

• rice with minced sea bream (tai)

noun:

• Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

noun:

• rice and salt; the necessities of life

noun:

• single helping (e.g. of rice)

noun:

• vinegared rice topped with sliced raw tuna

noun:

• curry and rice

noun:

• rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort ➜ 蓬餅