manjū

plural manjūs

1. alternativeAlternative form of manju.

   How about a manjū?

   2006, Taeko Kamiya, “Talking About Food”, in Japanese for Fun: A Practical Approach to Learning Japanese Quickly, Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 77

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   "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.

   1986, Fanny Hagin Mayer, transl., compiled by Yanagita Kunio, The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 91 and 105

   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.”

   1988, Natsume Sōseki, translated by Jay Rubin, The Miner, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 11

   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.

   1996, The East, volume 32, Tokyo: East Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1

   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.

   2013, Alethea Nibley, Athena Nibley, “Translation Notes”, in Ken Akamatsu, translated by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley, Negima! Magister Negi Magi, volume 37, New York, N.Y.: Kodansha Comics, →ISBN

   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.

   2015 January 15, Shizen-sha, translated by William Trotter and Yoko Trotter, “Reverend Kanada’s merciful state of mind”, in The Biography of Tokumitsu Kanada, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Training During His Prime Years), “A friendship with Ryoseki-ni Nakamura” section, page 56