Uso Kae (鷽替）

Sayuri Sasai is a Japanese artist who draws attractive, informative comics about daily life in Edo Period (1600–1868) Japan and shares them on Instagram.

The other day, she shared about a ceremony that originated in the Edo Period, Uso Kae--Bullfinch exchange. ( Here's a link to the original post , but below are screenshots of the images for those of you who can't access Instagram.)

Uso (Eurasian bullfinch, but in Japan it's the grey-bellied subspecies, with just a touch of rosiness on its throat i...