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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).
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).
Karuta; Oicho-Kabu; Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a Japanese trick-taking card game. Uta-garuta - a kind of karuta (another name: Hyakunin Isshu) Tile games.
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.
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Keitaro Kumehara (粂原 圭太郎, born 13 June 1991) is a Japanese author, competitive karuta player, and teacher. He was the karuta meijin for 2019 to 2021 after taking the title on 5 January 2019 at Omi Jingu. [1] [2] He is a graduate from Kyoto University from the Faculty of Economics and goes on lectures across Japan. [3]
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Teika's anthology is the basis for the card game of karuta, which has been popular since the Edo period. [ 12 ] Many forms of playing games with Hyakunin Isshu exist in Japan, such as Uta-garuta , the basis for competitive karuta ( kyōgi karuta ).