Crayfish with squid, A large crayfish with an squid, an onion-like vegetable and parsley. Perselie was one of the 'seven spring herbs' that were eaten on the seventh day of the first month. With five poems, crustaceans, molluscs: squid, Ry?ry?kyo Shinsai (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815, paper, colour woodcut, h 203 mm ⊙ w 278 mm.