Today is Nanakusa. Nanakusa means the custom eating rice porridge in vegetables of the seven kinds.
The pust Nanakusa refers to rice, millet, barnyard grass, sesame, small beans.
The spring Nanakusa refers to dropwort, shepherd's purse, chickweed, turnip, Japanese radish, Gnaphalium affine, and Lapsana apogonoides.
The fall Nanakusa refers to Patrinia scabiosifolia, Japanese pampas grass, Japanese bellflower, pink, boneset, kudzu vine, and Japanese clover.
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