子ねの日ひの遊あそび

expression, noun

ne-no-hi-no-asobi; New Year's herb gathering and pine pulling on the first Day of the Rat

A traditional courtly event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year, involving collecting young herbs and pulling up small pine trees. Now largely historical and literary.

• 子ねの日ひの遊あそびは、平へい安あん時じ代だいの宮きゅう中ちゅう行ぎょう事じとして知しられている。

  Ne-no-hi-no-asobi is known as a Heian-period court event.

• 和わ歌かには、子ねの日ひの遊あそびで小こ松まつを引ひく様よう子すが詠よまれている。

  Waka poems describe the scene of pulling up small pines during ne-no-hi-no-asobi.