I'm not Japanese so bear with me. I've found a couple different versions (names of the festive and of the food eaten) but it's basically the same so if I get it a little mixed up please forgive me. One site I found called this day the "festival of the young herbs" or Wakana-setsu. It was also referred to as Jin-jitsu or "Man (human) Day". So, you do understand the confusion.
They all agreed that the tradition of the day is to eat a rice porridge that contains the seven herbs or grasses pictured above. They are Japanese parsley, shepherd's purse, jersey cudweed, chickweed, henbit, turnip, and daikon.
The dish, nanakusa gayu, looks a bit bland to me,
but the belief is that eating it will bring you health and longevity.
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