小こ松まつ引ひき

noun

collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots; annual event on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year

A traditional New Year's event (子の日の遊び) where people would gather young greens and uproot small pines. Now largely historical or ceremonial.

See also: 子の日の遊び

• 小こ松まつ引ひきは、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行おこなわれていた。

  Komatsuhiki was performed as a court event in the Heian period.

• 子ねの日ひの遊あそびの一ひとつに小こ松まつ引ひきがある。

  One of the events on the Day of the Rat is komatsuhiki.