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Examples

  • As I ponder my choices, Eva-san tells me about mamushi-zake.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • It's a sake to which, during fermentation, a mamushi is added.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • The mamushi, a type of pit viper, is one of the two species of poisonous snakes indigenous to Japan.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • As I ponder my choices, Eva-san tells me about mamushi-zake.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • The mamushi, a type of pit viper, is one of the two species of poisonous snakes indigenous to Japan.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • It's a sake to which, during fermentation, a mamushi is added.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • * Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the mamushi (a poisonous viper) failed to weep for the death of the Buddha.

    In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • It's a sake to which, during fermentation, a mamushi is added.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

  • The mamushi, a type of pit viper, is one of the two species of poisonous snakes indigenous to Japan.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

  • As I ponder my choices, Eva-san tells me about mamushi-zake.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

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