Japanese history and event

• Event in January

It is an event that receives the new year in Japan.

It enjoys oneself over meal etc, because the family gathers like Christmas.

It visits the Shinto shrine and it prays for the safety of one year on this day.

Moreover, there is a custom of eating " nanakusagayu" on January 7.

This is an event that exists for 1000 years is Japan.

"nanakusagayu" is the one to eat and to pray for the safety of one year as for rice gruel that

seven herbs enter. It seemed to have been an event that was pleased with the visit of spring

with event that spring is felt to harvest seven herbs in spring in old times.

Seven herbs are the Japanese parsley, shepherd's purse, cottonweed, chickweed, Lamium

amplexicaule, a turnip and a Japanese radish.

These are made rice gruel and it eats.

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