●Daitoku-ji Temple, Sogen-in Subtemple, Master Kanshu Hasegawa ✧ Wakana (Young Herbs) ✧ Generally, these are the herbs used in the seven-herb rice porridge (nanakusa-gayu) cooked on January 7th. The seven herbs of spring: Japanese parsley (seri), shepherd's purse (nazuna), cudweed (gogyo), chickweed (hakobera), henbit (hotokenoza), turnip (suzuna), and daikon radish (suzushiro). You can actually go out and pick young herbs in the spring, when it gets a little warmer, around March. Please confirm and understand the item through the images before purchasing.