January 5th, 2025 – January 9th, 2025 is Winter – SHOKAN (Lesser cold)-67th KOU “SERI flourishes”
SERI (Japanese parsley) is a familiar plant to Japanese people as an early spring food ingredient (one of the seven herbs). It was already being eaten in the Nara period (8th century)
It is one of the first plants to flourish in the cold season before spring arrives, so people in the past ate SERI to try putting its vitality into their bodies.
I found some wild SERI. It has a unique, refreshing scent. It’s still small, but the scent is more than enough to make me look forward to spring.
