manjū

Example Sentences

• ""The handmill that ground out salt" (Shiofuki usu). It tells of meeting Little People and trading a wheat manjū for a handmill. […] "The fox and the boy" (Kitsune to musuko). The fox was told to turn into a manjū and was eaten."
• "A blue cloth lay atop the platter, not quite covering some round, deep-fried manjū.* […] “Would you like a manjū?” the woman asked. “They’re fresh. Fried ’em myself the day before yesterday.”"
• "Noki-gawara (“eave tiles”) A general term for tiles that border eaves. The manjū variety (2) is so-called because the free edge turned down at a right angle looks like a manjū, bun filled with bean jam."
• "How about a manjū?"
• "A manjū is a type of bun with filling. When someone goes out of town, they will often buy the local manjū as a souvenir for friends and acquaintances, but it's also the kind of gift that doesn't require any thought."
• "While they were on the mountain path, Reverend Kanada started to leave some manjūs (a type of sweet) under the trees and on top of the rocks."