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The herbs are good for you!
🌿Seri (せり) = increases appetite
🌿Nazuna (なずな) = iron rich
🌿Gogyō (ごぎょう) = antipyretic
🌿Hakobera (はこべら) = rich in Vitamin A
🌿Hotokenoza (ほとけのざ) = full of fibre
🌿Suzuna (すずな/かぶ) = vitamin rich
🌿Suzushiro (すずしろ) = promotes digestion -
On January 7th many people in Japan consume a rice-porridge mixed with 7 different herbs.
'Nanakusa-no-sekku' (七草の節句), known also as 'Jinjitsu' (人日), is 1 of 5 seasonal festivals celebrated by the imperial court for over 1000 years.The dish is eaten as a prayer for health and longevity (in China it was eaten to ward off evil spirits)🥣🌿
in every thicket
where people live...
pounding New Year's herbs
あの藪に人の住めばぞ薺打
-Issa (小林一茶), 1804. -
🌿WHOLESOME HERBS🥣
After all that New Year excess it's time for a hearty porridge to help fortify the body for the year ahead.
For over a thousand years herbs have been gathered, mixed into a rice gruel and consumed on the 7th day of the 1st month as a prayer for health and luck.
🌿water dropwort (せり)
🌿shepherd’s purse (なずな/ぺんぺん)
🌿cudweed (ごぎょう)
🌿chickweed (はこべら)
🌿nipplewort (ほとけのざ)
🌿turnip (すずな/かぶ)
🌿daikon (すずしろ・大根)