Incidentally, the long months in the year of 1825 were January, March, May, July, October, and December and a mnemonics for remembering the long months of the year was "daisukiha zoni, kusamochi, kashiwamochi, bon no boatamochi, inoko, kanmochi" (meaning "What I like is zoni (vegetable soup containing mochi (rice cake), eaten on January 1), kusamochi (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort, eaten on March 3), kashiwamochi (a rice cake which contains bean paste and is wrapped in an oak leaf, eaten May 5), botamochi of the Obon festival (a rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour, or sesame, eaten on the day of Obon festival (Festival of the Dead or Buddhist All Soul's Day in mid July)), inokomochi (rice cake like a little boar, eaten on the day of boar in October), and kanmochi (rice cake pounded during the coldest season in December (around present-day January)).
ちなみに文政8年（1825年）の大小月覚え言葉は1月、3月、5月、7月、10月、12月が大月で「大好きは雑煮草餅柏餅ぼんのぼた餅亥の子寒餅」という。