Karuta is a collectible card bot powered by Discord that currently features more than 78,000 anime characters. It turns these characters into unique collectibles that you can earn, customize, upgrade, trade, and more! We're a collaborative community website that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Wikis like this one depend on readers getting involved and adding content. Click the 'ADD NEW PAGE' or 'EDIT' button at the top of any page to get started! Community Founders: Write a good and paragraph-length description here about your topic. Let your readers know what your topic is about and add some. Chihayafuru (ちはやふる) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu, serialized in Be Love and published by Kodansha. The first Chapter was released on December 28, 2007. The manga has won the Manga Taishō Award and the Kodansha Manga Award. Since its fourth volume was released in March 2009, it has regularly appeared on the Japanese Comic Ranking chart, and in August. Karuta is a flexible tool for the incremental prototyping and the diffusion on the web of digital portfolios or eportfolios for various purposes; showcase.
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OTSU, Japan, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Heated battles unfolded on the 'tatami' mat floor during the national championship tournaments of competitive karuta (card game) held at Omi Shrine, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on January 9, 2021, to determine the best national players -- the 'Meijin' (Master) winner of the men's division and the 'Queen' winner of the women's division.
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The calm and quiet venue was filled with a tense atmosphere each time when the reciter read out a poem (on the 'yomifuda' or reading card) from the 'Hyakunin Isshu' collection (a classical anthology of literary 100 'waka' poets, one poem each). Upon hearing the first syllable of an average 17-syllable first half of a poem on one yomifuda, players reached out for the corresponding card ('torifuda,' or cards for players, each having the second half of the same poem) in the blink of an eye.
An Israeli man, who was watching the competition, said with apparent excitement, 'I had the same feeling of tension as that of the anime version.'
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ofaK2nLJEXs
Photo1: Players taking part in the women's tournament at Omi Shrine (the championship tournament for the Queen title) (January 9, 2021)https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI2fl_wuCxC4vP.jpg
Photo2: The men's championship tournament for the Meijin (Master) titlehttps://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI3fl_73AVh8Si.jpg
Photo3: New Queen Yuri Yamazoe (left) and Meijin Keitaro Kumehara (right)https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI4fl_3c07r8Cr.jpg
Photo4: Spectators listen attentively to commentaries while looking at the display screenhttps://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI5fl_LtK43N56.jpg
All matches can be seen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/D-FUjgT1GOM
'Martial art on tatami'
In competitive karuta, the reciter reads out yomifuda cards one by one while players compete to quickly grab the corresponding torifuda. It is referred to as a martial art on tatami because it requires a good memory, concentration, instantaneous force, and physical strength.
In recent years, the popular animated series Chihayafuru has played a part in sparking a karuta boom, particularly among the youth, and the number of players from overseas has been on the rise.
Photo5: Picture of karuta cardsYomifuda:https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI9fl_gh5I0X1J.jpg
Torifuda:https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI10fl_5EYW163K.jpg
Omi Shrine, the 'sacred place' of karuta
Omi Shrine, also known as Omi Jingu, is dedicated to Emperor Tenji, who composed the first poem of Hyakunin Isshu, and is regarded as the sacred place of karuta. In addition to the national championship tournaments, the Japanese national senior high school karuta championship is held at the Shinto shrine every year. Furthermore, heated matches took place among players from Japan and abroad when the competitive karuta world championship was held at the shrine in 2019.
Photo6: Omi Shrine (Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture)https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI6fl_u2vFzHc9.jpg
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Photo7: Omi Kangakukan (on the grounds of Omi Shrine)https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M103190/202101199945/_prw_PI8fl_6T7Eknv0.jpg
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We specialize in making karutas in different languages since 2009.
You can play karuta like Chihayafuru with our Ogoola English Karuta or the Hyakuninisshu English Karuta.
Ogoola Karuta is an English version of the game karuta. The rules are based on the ancient Japanese poetry card game called karuta. This karuta uses famous quotations of classical and modern poems written in English. For the first time in history, you can play karuta with English, American, Irish and Scottish poems.
Karuta is over 400 years old in Japan. Today, there are over one million karuta players competing in clubs and the National championship is held every year in January. Due to the manga and anime Chihayafuru, karuta has become known worldwide.
Karuta is about listening and being FAST. You need one person to be the reader and a tleast two players to compete. A reader reads a poem or a poetry quote aloud. The players search and grab the matching playing card being read. Grab the right card first to win!
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A free reader app is available in both Android and iOS devices. A reader app can act as the reader if everyone wants to play or you are only two persons. The poetry readings are also on Spotify so you can find the readings in the albums Ogoola Karuta English Classics and Modern on Spotify.
In addition to the Ogoola Karuta we offer the Hyakuninisshu English translated Karuta. This karuta is an English translated karuta of the original OguraHyakunin-isshu. Ogura Hyakunin-isshu is the anthology of the one hundred classical Japanese poems (waka) written by one hundred poets which is used in this game.
This is the karuta that Chihayafuru plays with. This karuta features the original Japanese karuta from Shogundo on one side, and the English translations on the other side. The English translation is translated by Clay MacCauley. He follows the the original 575-77 syllables of the Waka form. Therefore you can sing the poems in the original melody and rhythm as sung in the karuta tournaments in Japan.
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Experience Japanese culture and the world of poetry through karuta! Fun and laughter is guaranteed!
Click below and listen to the Hyakuninisshu English Translated Karuta, using the original Makurakotoba, Chihayaburu.