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...

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...

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...

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 two sets of 100...

French deck. Portuguese decks also started the development of karuta in Japan (karuta comes from Portuguese "carta") though most decks bear little resemblance...

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...

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...

get around the ban, Japanese manufacturers radically redesigned their "karuta" (cards) and renamed them to "fuda." The face cards became increasingly...

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...

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...

karuta, square or rectangular armor plates, or kusari, chain armor, or a combination of these armors. Antique Japanese (samurai) Edo period karuta sashinuki...

revenge on her the next time they met. 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...

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...

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....

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...

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)...

Chihaya Ayase, who is inspired by a new classmate to take up Hyakunin Isshu karuta competitively. An anime television series adaptation aired from October...

their future selves. Unfortunately, this sudden peace is interrupted when Karuta Roromiya, Kagerō Shoukiin's SS, is attacked and heavily wounded by a fellow...

mid-16th century which influenced the development of Karuta where the 48-card Komatsufuda, 75-card Unsun Karuta, and 40-card Kabufuda decks still maintain this...

unincorporated establishment, to produce and distribute Japanese playing cards, or karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta, 'card'), most notably hanafuda (花札, 'flower...

China Japan and Korea "'Ōta Karuta' Efuda, Yomifuda Ichiran Ya Gyo" 『太田かるた』絵札・読み札一覧や行 [List of Karuta cards (Ya) in Ōta Karuta] (in Japanese). City of Ota...

Card from the Japanese game obake karuta, c. early 19th century...

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...

(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...

pictures, they are often depicted cutely, or in a humorous design. In yōkai karuta, hitotsume-kozō are depicted carrying tōfu, but according to the yōkai researcher...

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...

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...

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...

century which influenced the development of Karuta where the 48-card Komatsufuda and 75-card Unsun Karuta decks still maintain this suit. The gallery...

This obake karuta ('monster card') from the early 19th century depicts a kitsune. The associated game involves matching clues from folklore to pictures...