Meanings
- A type of wagashi made by pressing sugar and flour into molds of various different shapes.
He thrust a rakugan into her mouth. […] Yamakakachi picked up one of the rakugan with a trembling hand and fed it to him.
2022 June, Shinobumaru, translated by Kevin Ishizaka, The Haunted Bookstore: Gateway to a Parallel Universe, volume 4, [Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Airship, →ISBN, page 392 more examples
The owner of Baifūan had initially said he wanted to advertise ume jellies, then he changed to mooncake and then rakugan confectionery.
2020, Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton, “The Bus Advertising Job”, in There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 79Most of the Japanese sweets that we had regularly eaten back on Earth, like dango and manju, were classified as namagashi. Rakugan and senbei rice crackers were classified as higashi, but I’d hardly ever had opportunities to eat rakugan, and senbei were kind of different from what I had in mind when I thought of namagashi.
2024 September 9, Itsuki Mizuho, translated by Yen-Po Tseng, “Garden Paradise?”, in To Another World… with Land Mines!, volume 9, [San Antonio, Tex.]: J-Novel Club, →ISBN
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 落雁(らくがん) (rakugan, literally “falling wild goose”).
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rakugan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rakugan
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