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)
Word Meaning 七草
ななくさ
nanakusa
七草 is read as ななくさ (nanakusa) and means the seven spring flowers.
Meaning
English
- the seven spring flowers
- the seven fall flowers
- the seven autumn flowers
- the seventh of January
- Festival of Seven Herbs
Reading
Kana
ななくさ
Romaji
nanakusa
Writing Variants
- 七種 ななくさ nanakusa
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
Max. 12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)
七草の節句
ななくさのせっく
Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)
七草粥
ななくさがゆ
rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring
七公三民
しちこうさんみん
land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent