Hyakunin-Isshu JapaneseKaruta

Features Hyakunin-Isshu JapaneseKaruta

Hyakunin-Isshu is the traditional Japanese collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets.The title can be translated as “One hundred people, one poem each”.All the poems in Hyakunin-Isshu are made in Tanka style, consisting of 31 syllables.
The first half of a Tanka poem (17 syllables) is called Kamino-ku and the second half is called Shimono-ku .
（Note: Some poems consist of 30 syllables or 32 syllables.） Two different types of Karuta cards are used for the game.
One is the Yomi-fuda (reading card) and the other is the Tori-fuda (playing cards).
Each set has 100 cards.This game shows Kaminoku (The first half of a Tanka ) on the upper area.So, You select Shimono-ku card in the bottom area.You can learn traditional Japanese poem and hiragana letters on this game.