Day of the Boar - Inohi

Japanese: 亥の日 - いのひ
Day of the Boar - Inohi
① "I (boar)" ② (I) is the day. [Nippo Jisho (1603-04)] ② It means the day of the boar in October. Open the hearth or kotatsu and eat boar's robe rice cakes (called boar rice cakes by the people of Edo). ※Miscellaneous haiku, Yanagi Taru-sanichi (1805) "The day of the boar began to be the day when people asked for the box to be brought in."

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Japanese:
① 「い(亥)②(イ)」に当たる日。〔日葡辞書(1603‐04)〕② 一〇月の亥の日のこと。炉やこたつを開き、亥の子餠(江戸の民間では牡丹餠)を食う。※雑俳・柳多留‐三一(1805)「はこ入をくどきはじめは亥の日なり」

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