The Festival of Seven Herbs, or Nanakusa no sekku, is the long-standing Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge (nanakusa-gayu) on January 7 (Jinjitsu).
The nanakusa are seven edible wild herbs of spring. Traditionally, they are: Water dropwor, Shepherd's Purse, Cudweed, Chickweed, Nipplewort, Turnip and Radish.
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