七草

ななくさ

the seven spring flowers

秋の七草

あきのななくさ

seven autumnal flowers (bush clover, Chinese silvergrass, kudzu, fringed pink, golden lace, thoroughwort, and balloon flower)

春の七草

はるのななくさ

seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon)

粥

かゆ

thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee

七草の節句

ななくさのせっく

Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January), one of the 5 seasonal festivals

望粥

もちがゆ

azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month

粥腹

かゆばら

surviving on rice gruel

お粥

おかゆ

thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee

茶粥

ちゃがゆ ちゃかゆ

tea gruel, tea flavoured rice gruel

芋粥

いもがゆ

rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes

パン粥

パンがゆ

bread porridge

糜粥

びじゅく

chyme

粥占

かゆうら じゅくせん

rice porridge divination, harvest divination carried out during koshogatsu

粥状

じゅくじょう

gruel-like, porridge-like

粥柱

かゆばしら

mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month)

白粥

しらがゆ しらかゆ はくかゆ

rice porridge made of only white rice and water

朝粥

あさがゆ

breakfast rice gruel

粥杖

かゆづえ

wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

七七日

しちしちにち なななぬか なななのか ななななにち

49th day after death