Karuta is a card game often played on New Year’s holidays. There are two sets of cards that are matched, reading card and grabbing card, and players try to pick the card corresponding to a reading card while a reader chants the phrase. There are some different kinds of karuta, but the...
Tanka and Competitive Karuta Posted onMay 27, 2017 I’m in the Japan Times this week with a quick introduction to tanka along with some cool reading recommendations: “Tanka help Japanese express emotions.” I can’t recommend 『現代秀歌』 highly enough. As I mention in the article, it’...
Since you don't want to be left with a lot of points in your hand to give the round winner, play your highest numbered cards first. This way, you will have less points in your hand if someone else ends the round. If you have higher numbers in a different color than the one in ...
Since you don't want to be left with a lot of points in your hand to give the round winner, play your highest numbered cards first. This way, you will have less points in your hand if someone else ends the round. If you have higher numbers in a different color than the one in ...