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Naoki Maeda (前田直樹), 9th generation head. ( CEO) Website. www .tengudo .jp. Oishi Tengudo ( 大石天狗堂) is a Kyoto -based Japanese manufacturer of 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 company logo is a tengu mask ...
Karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta ["card"])[1] are Japanese playing cards. Playing cards were introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders during the mid-16th century. These early decks were used for trick-taking games. The earliest indigenous karuta was invented in the town of Miike in Chikugo Province at around the end of the 16th century.
Hanafuda (Japanese: 花札, lit. 'flower cards' [1][2]) are a type of Japanese playing cards. They are typically smaller than Western playing cards, only 5.4 by 3.2 centimetres (2.1 by 1.3 in), but thicker and stiffer, [3] and often with a pronounced curve. On the face of each card is a depiction of plants, tanzaku (短冊), animals, birds, or ...
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 cards, with a waka poem written on each. Uta-garuta is also the name of the game in which the deck is used. The standard collection of poems used is the Hyakunin Isshu, chosen by poet ...
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Hyakunin Isshu (百人一首) is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets. Hyakunin isshu can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem [each]"; it can also refer to the card game of uta-garuta, which uses a deck composed of cards based on the Hyakunin Isshu.
Koi-Koi (Japanese: こいこい) is a popular card game in Japan played with hanafuda. [1] The phrase "koi-koi" means "come on" in Japanese [2] which is said when the player wants to continue the round. The object of the game is to form special card combinations (or sets) called yaku (Japanese: 役) from cards accumulated in a point pile.
Oicho-Kabu. Oicho-Kabu (おいちょかぶ) is a traditional Japanese card game that is similar to Baccarat. It is typically played with special kabufuda cards. A hanafuda deck can also be used, if the last two months are discarded, and Western playing cards can be used if the face cards are removed from the deck and aces are counted as one.
Sakura (card game) Categories: Card games by type of deck. Japanese card games. South Korean card games.