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    Karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta ["card"]) are Japanese playing cards. Playing cards were introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders during the mid-16th...
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  • Competitive karuta (競技かるた, Kyōgi karuta) is an official Japanese card game that uses a deck of uta-garuta cards to play karuta, within the format and rules...
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    Karuta (カルタ金, karuta-gane) was a type of armour worn by samurai warriors and their retainers during the feudal era of Japan. The word karuta comes from...
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    Uta-garuta (redirect from Uta karuta)
    Uta-garuta (歌ガルタ, lit. "Poetry Karuta") is a type of a deck of karuta, Japanese traditional playing cards. A set of uta-garuta contains 100 cards, with...
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  • characters in Chihayafuru, a manga series, set in the world of competitive karuta, by Yuki Suetsugu whose story has been adapted into novels, animated series...
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    French deck. Portuguese decks also started the development of karuta in Japan (karuta comes from Portuguese "carta") though most decks bear little resemblance...
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    Mekuri took the place of Yomi. It became so popular that Yomi Karuta was renamed Mekuri Karuta. Mechanically, Mekuri is similar to Chinese fishing games....
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    a hotoke dō gusoku; a suit of armour that came with a karuta tatami dō would be called a karuta tatami dō gusoku. True kozane dō are of lamellar construction...
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  • Daihinmin) Hanafuda Karuta Oicho-Kabu Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a Japanese trick-taking card game. Uta-garuta - a kind of karuta (another name: Hyakunin...
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    with karuta tatami dō and chochin kabuto Karuta tatami dō and karuta zukin (hood) Edo period samurai karuta tatami dō in the hara-ate style Karuta katabira...
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  • Chihaya Ayase, who is inspired by a new classmate to take up Hyakunin Isshu karuta competitively. An anime television series adaptation aired from October...
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    very similar to the Japanese karuta tatami-do. The major difference is that kalantar are not sewn to a cloth backing as Karuta tatami-do are. According to...
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  • their future selves. Unfortunately, this sudden peace is interrupted when Karuta Roromiya, Kagerō Shoukiin's SS, is attacked and heavily wounded by a fellow...
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  • karuta, square or rectangular armor plates, or kusari, chain armor, or a combination of these armors. Antique Japanese (samurai) Edo period karuta sashinuki...
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    lingers on only in the Tarocco Siciliano and the Unsun Karuta and Komatsufuda of Japan. Unsun Karuta additionally has a fifth Guru suit (circular whirls)...
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  • childhood friend. Arata is a prodigious karuta player whose dream is to become Meijin, the men's division karuta champion in Japan, equivalent to the women's...
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    chōchin-kozō. They appear in the kusazōshi, omocha-e, and karuta card games like obake karuta starting from the Edo period to the early 20th century (and...
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    Nintendo (redirect from Nintendo Karuta)
    unincorporated establishment, to produce and distribute Japanese playing cards, or karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta, 'card'), most notably hanafuda (花札, 'flower...
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  • (shell-matching) was converted to the new karuta format during the early 17th century to form E-awase karuta. The Japanese hanafuda pack contains 48 cards...
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    Art Karuta tatami dō gusoku, Edo period. A lightweight portable folding (tatami) armour made from small square or rectangle armor plates called karuta. The...
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  • Flower, Drama Teacher Scott Edgar – Principal Rogerson Mark Hamill – King Karuta, King Blackyard Edwin Kane – Leroy Kate McLennan – Charity, Anime Girls...
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  • under the assumed name Sanjome (三丈目). Fairy-Tale Card (メルへンカルタ, Meruen Karuta) The Fairy-Tale Card is a yōkai sealed within the Danmanra board game and...
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  • playing cards and other traditional games, including go, hanafuda, and other karuta. With a handful of exceptions, all their cards are still made by hand. The...
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    with no front crest holder Edo-period karuta zukin, an armored hood from with iron cards and mail Edo-period karuta tatami dō in the hara-ate style Edo-period...
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  • Chihaya Ayase, a girl who is inspired by a classmate to take up competitive karuta, with the dream of forming a club and reaching the national tournament....
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    and one foot was seen from the Edo period and onwards, and in the Obake karuta made from the Edo period to the Taishō period, kasa-obake with one foot...
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    Isshu exist in Japan, such as Uta-garuta, the basis for competitive karuta (kyōgi karuta). Nisonin, Kyoto Shigureden, a museum in Kyoto about this subject...
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  • Zankuro - Guest Star - (2002) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 4 - Series Regular - (2002) Karuta Queen - Series Regular - (2003) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 5 - Series Regular -...
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    patterns replace male knaves with female counterparts. The specific Unsun karuta deck has three additional ranks: the "Un", the "Sun", and the Dragon. French...
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    This obake karuta ('monster card') from the early 19th century depicts a kitsune. The associated game involves matching clues from folklore to pictures...
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