also: ほしいい
dried boiled rice; hoshi-ii
Historically used as portable provisions by samurai and travelers; today it is a traditional preserved food, sometimes rehydrated with hot water or eaten as a snack.
During the Warring States period, samurai carried dried boiled rice as portable rations.
Dried boiled rice becomes soft and fluffy again when you pour hot water over it.
Modern processed instant rice; 干し飯 is a traditional sun-dried or heat-dried rice with a harder texture and historical context.
A sweetened rice cake snack; 干し飯 is plain dried rice, not sweetened or formed into cakes.
Standard modern spelling with regular okurigana.
Single-kanji form; reading ほしい is restricted to this spelling. Archaic and literary.
Alternate kanji for 'dried'; less common than 干し飯.
Irregular okurigana usage; less common than 干し飯.
Irregular okurigana usage; less common than 干し飯.
From 干し (hoshi, 'drying') + 飯 (ii, 'cooked rice'). The reading ほしい is an older form; ほしいい is the modern standard reading.