Crossword-Solution: MOCHI 5 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Many of these houses were road-side _chayas_, or tea-houses, and nearly all sold sweet-meats, dried fish, pickles, _mochi_, or uncooked cakes of rice dough, dried persimmons, rain hats, or straw shoes for man or beast.

Many of the things are eatables, such as dried fishes, 1½ inch long, impaled on sticks; cakes, sweetmeats composed of rice, flour, and very little sugar; circular lumps of rice dough, called _mochi_; roots boiled in brine; a white jelly made from beans; and ropes, straw shoes for men and horses, straw cloaks, paper umbrellas, paper waterproofs, hair-pins, tooth-picks, tobacco pipes, paper _mouchoirs_, and numbers of other trifles made of bamboo, straw, grass, and wood.

The fox-possessors (kitsune-mochi) must feed their foxes at regular hours; and the foxes always eat first--all the seventy-five.

Rich fox-possessing families have not overmuch difficulty in disposing of their daughters by one of the means above indicated; but many a fine sweet girl of the poorer kitsune-mochi is condemned by superstition to remain unwedded.

The country-folk, as a general rule, are afraid of giving offence to a kitsune-mochi, lest he should send some of his invisible servants to take possession of them.