お食くい初ぞめ

noun

first meal ceremony; 100-day celebration

A traditional Japanese ceremony held when a baby is about 100 days old, where the infant is symbolically fed solid food for the first time to wish for a lifetime of plentiful food.

• お食くい初ぞめでは、赤あかちゃんに食たべさせる真似まねをします。

  At the okuizome ceremony, we pretend to feed the baby.

• お食くい初ぞめの料りょう理りには、鯛たいや赤せき飯はんなど縁えん起ぎの良よいものが並ならびます。

  The okuizome meal includes auspicious foods like sea bream and red rice.