January 7 is known as nanakusa (七草), seven herbs. It is a day to eat nanakusa gayu (七草粥), rice porridge of seven herbs.
Seven herbs are seri (芹): Water dropwort, nazuna (薺): Shepherd's Purse, gogyo (御形): Cudweed, hakobera (はこべら): chickweed, hotokenoza (ほとけのざ): Nipplewort, suzuna (菘): Turnip, and suzushiro (すずしろ): Radish.
We tend to eat many delicious food so called osechiryori (お節料理) in the New Year's Days, so we need to eat something light after a week.
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