dried whitebait

daytime, the daylight hours / midday, noon / (by extension) the midday meal, lunch

dango

Alternative spelling of お握り: a grip, a grasp (children's word); a rice ball (vaguely similar to a sandwich)

Alternative spelling of お握り: a grip, a grasp (children's word); a rice ball (vaguely similar to a sandwich)

(childish) a closing or grasping of one's hand / a rice ball (from the way the ball is formed by squeezing a handful of rice in one's hands)

to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

today, this day / nowadays

Same as こんにち above