evergrn: OMG THANK YOU! That is exactly the sort of info that is most helpful to me, and it's well beyond the flyertalk "call of duty" to search in Japanese on my behalf. 本当に有難うございました。The ones I've had have been of the "single, large oval" per-stick variety rather than "3 spheres" variety, but, basically, yes, that looks like what I've had.
jib71: what can I say, my brain works differently than most people's. It wasn't necessarily obvious to me
