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Iroha karuta (Japanese: いろはかるた) is an easier-to-understand matching game for children, similar to Uta-garuta but with 96 cards. Instead of poems, the cards represent the 47 syllables of the hiragana syllabary and adds kyō ( 京 , "capital") for the 48th (since the syllable -n ん can never start any word or phrase).
Chihayafuru (ちはやふる) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu.It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Be Love from December 2007 to August 2022, with its chapters collected in 50 tankōbon volumes.
Arata Wataya was a transfer student to Chihaya's elementary school, grandchild of an eternal master karuta player, Arata inspires Chihaya to take up karuta. [5] He has difficulty fitting in at Chihaya's elementary school because of his Fukui dialect and passion for karuta, but Chihaya befriends him. [15] His dream is to become a karuta Meijin.
Competitive karuta is a one-on-one game, facilitated by a reciter (card reader) and a judge. All official matches use cards made by Oishi Tengudo.. 50 torifuda cards are randomly selected from the total of 100; the 50 cards that are not selected are excluded from the game and are known as karafuda (dead cards or ghost cards).
The series debuted in 2007, and its popularity has boosted the popularity of competitive karuta in Japan and abroad. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the manga and anime series Nanbaka , uta-garuta is the 3rd Event of the New Year Joint Cooperation tournament.
Aoyama cited the live-action adaptations of Yuki Suetsugu's manga series Chihayafuru among his inspirations for making Hyakunin Isshu and karuta subjects of a Case Closed film. He noted the Kyoto-based Karuta Queen, or national champion in the women's division, as depicted in Chihayafuru, as the model for characters in The Crimson Love Letter. [4]
Karuta armor is a form of lightweight, folding armor known as "tatami".The "karuta" are small square or rectangle plates of iron or leather connected to each other by kusari or laced to each other, with the plates sewn to a cloth backing, individual karuta armour plates could also be sewn directly to a cloth backing without being connected to each other.
An aobōzu depicted in a deck of obake karuta cards. [1] Aobōzu (青 (あお) 坊 (ぼ) 主 (うず), "Blue priest") is a Japanese yōkai (spirit) found in a number of Japanese legends. Stories about aobōzu, in particular the exact details of the spirit, vary widely.