Jan 7th nanakusa gayu

On Jan 7th, we eat kayu, rice gruel  with 7herbs.
The  kind of seven herbs is decided. I can find 5-6 in my yard and fridge.
sometimes I　use different kind of herb instead, and count 7kind of herbs.



This year, I bought 7herbs pack at the market. This is easy. I didn't have to look for herb in the frozen garden.

And we went to shrine to put away new years decoration.

 New year's decoration is for god, I feel something sacred, we cannot put away with kitchen garbage.
When I was young, there were bonfire, called 'SAGICHO' and we burned new year's decoration and Japanese penmanship shuji  there, but now it is hard to find that event in the city.