三日の餅

みかのもちい

Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

三日三夜

みっかみよ さんにちさんや

3 days and 3 nights

日夜

にちや

day and night, always

五十日の餅

いかのもちい

mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day

十三夜

じゅうさんや

13th day (of the moon), the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month

三日

みっか

the third day of the month

十日夜

とおかんや とおかや

Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

三日三晩

みっかみばん さんにちさんばん

3 days and 3 nights

二十三夜

にじゅうさんや

23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)

萩の餅

はぎのもち

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

汁の餅

mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

水の餅

みずのもち

mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year

連日連夜

れんじつれんや

every day and every night

一日一夜

いちにちいちや

all day and night

日毎夜毎

ひごとよごと

every day and every night, day after day, daily

三日月

みかづき みかずき みっかづき

new moon, crescent moon

三十日

さんじゅうにち みそか つごもり みそ

last day of the month

三日間

みっかかん

three days

両三日

りょうさんにち

two or three days