In some regions, Koshogatsu is called Onna-shogatsu (Women's New Year, also called Me-shogatsu) to thank housewives for their hard work over matsu no uchi, during which they weren't supposed to have to work in the kitchen until Jinjitsu (in the lunar calendar, the seventh day after New Year's Day).
本来は人日まで竈を休ませるはずの松の内に、忙しく働いた主婦をねぎらう意味で、女正月という地方もある。