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Creation Date: 04-26-2010 10:46 PM
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the water does not try
to reflect the moon
and the moon has no desire
to be reflected
but when the clouds clear
there is the moon in the water
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  #146 New 01-26-2013 09:34 AM
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matsu1 by atsukosmith

What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote


A man's idea in a card game is war - cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley on Making a Will


When I look up at
The wide-stretched plain of heaven,
Is the moon the same
That rose on Mount Mikasa
In the land of Kasuga?
Abe no Nakamaro, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu


Uh, is this a game of chance?
Not the way I play it, no.
W C Fields, My Little Chickadee

Last weekend in a community hall near where I live there was a karuta tournament. Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game. It's often played in the new year. The word karuta comes from Portuguese.

It's partly a literary memory game and partly a reaction speed battle.

The traditional game is based on a book of waka poems called the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in the thirteenth century in the Ogura district of Kyoto. It is a book of one hundred poems by one hundred poets. That is a simple concept for an anthology of poetry and there is a modern anthology of English poetry called 100 Poems by 100 Poets.

Now there are also karuta with many different themes and designs. There are sets based on popular comic characters like One Piece and Doraemon and sets for studying history or Shakespeare.

There is a popular manga and animé series about karuta called Chiyahafuru. It's about high school students in a karuta club. A second season started in January 2013.

There are some similarities with martial arts. Karuta has dan ranks. For formal tournaments the players wear kimono and hakama. And you need very, very fast reflexes.

Niall


poems and background articles

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu online
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japane...nin/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakunin_Isshu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uta-garuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_karuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihayafuru

100 Poems by 100 Poets selected by Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert and Anthony Astbury
http://www.amazon.co.jp/100-Poems-Po...dp/0802132790/


cool artwork: matsu1 by atsukosmith


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