also: おくいぞめ
first meal ceremony; 100-day celebration
A traditional Japanese ceremony held when a baby is about 100 days old, where the baby is symbolically fed solid food for the first time to wish for a life free from hunger. Often called お食い初め.
See also: お食い初め
We held the first meal ceremony on the baby's 100th day after birth.
食い初めでは、小さな箸で赤ちゃんに食べさせる真似をする。
At the weaning ceremony, we pretend to feed the baby with small chopsticks.
first meal ceremony; 100-day celebration
Standard kanji spelling for this ceremony.
Variant spelling without the okurigana い.
Honorific form commonly used in practice.
From 食い (eating) + 初め (first time). The honorific prefix お is often added.