jpdb beta

hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; dicing; small cubes; roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)

7

(sense of) taste; counter for food, drink, medicine, etc.

3

rice cracker

1

disk-shaped

1

to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)

2

die cutting; cutting with a cutter; shaping with a mold; cookie cutter

1

to roast; to parch; to toast; to boil down

1

one's home; one's house

1

a bit more; a bit longer

1

mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

1

mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

1

-like; -looking; -looked; tending to ...

1

adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

4

rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

4

fundamental; basic

1

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

3

same amount

1

softness; comparatively soft

1

thickness; profundity; depth

3

oval; elliptical; oblong

1

to wrap up; to pack; to do up; to cover with; to dress in

1

equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held); Buddhist services during the equinoctial week; nirvana

1

event; function

1

confections; sweets; candy; cake

3

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

1

to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about

2

admirable; charming; nostalgic; curious; eager to know (or see, experience, etc.)

1

reason; cause; history; origin

1

button (clothing); push-button

1

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)

1

bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)

3

to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age

1

secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)

1

shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation

2

largish; biggish; a little bit larger

1

custom

1

season (period in which regulated games are played); season (division of the year); season (of a TV show, etc.); season (for doing something, e.g. ski season, entrance examination season)

1

coarse anko; coarse sweet red bean paste

3

winter

3

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

1

strained bean paste; smooth anko; fine-grained sweet bean paste

5

kinako mochi; mochi sprinkled with sweetened soy flour

6

abekawa mochi; rice cake with kinako

6

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543.1.31-1616.6.1), Shougun 1603-1605

2

grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence

1

jealousy; roasted rice cake

1

staple food

2

between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea

4

kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

2

to cover (smear, sprinkle) (with)

2