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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] On the face of each card is a depiction of plants, tanzaku (短冊), animals, birds, or man-made objects.
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.
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Uta-garuta (歌ガルタ, lit. "poetry karuta") is a card game in which 100 waka poems are written on two sets of 100 cards: one set is yomifuda (読札, lit. "reading cards"), which have the complete poem taken from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首), and the other is torifuda (取り札, lit. "grabbing cards"), which each ...
A hanafuda-specific method involves drawing a random card: each player draws a single card — the player who draws a card from the earliest month is the oya. If both players draw a card from the same month, the player with the higher value card becomes the oya. The other player is called the ko (Japanese: 子). [3]
This template is used by filling in two variables (X and Y).{{hanafuda|X|Y}} X is the number of the month (from 1 to 12), and Y corresponds to the value of the card: 20 points for a hikari, 10 points for a tane, 5 for a tanzaku, and 1 (or 1a, 1b, 1c) for a kasu.
In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda (お札/御札, honorific form of fuda, ' slip [of paper], card, plate ') or gofu (護符) is a talisman made out of various materials such as paper, wood, cloth or metal.