Ok, now we start on the rules of Kyougi Karuta.
Laying the cards
1.The game is played on tatami mat(If Judo mat can be made available it can do). You can also use tile floor but make sure that you have knee support. Don't hurt your knees.
(Photo of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu cards)
2.The set of cards used is Ogura Hyakunin Isshu made by Oishi Tengudo. The players sit facing each other, bow to each other and shuffle cards in between them facing upside down.
(Cards placed on floor facing upside down)
3. Pick some cards from the shuffled cards and pick only 25 cards. I have no one to play with me so I select the cards for both sides. Playing alone is known as hitori renshu.(You can do that by making 5 decks of 5 cards each.)
(50 cards are used in one game and are also known as de-fuda. Rest are known as Kara-fuda or empty cards or ghost cards)
4. Now, we place the 25 cards in the place between the players in the length approximately equal to 87 centimeters or length equal to row when 16 cards are laid side by side and the breadth equal to 3 rows of cards with space of 1cm each between the rows. The opponents area also known as territory is separated from yours by 3 cm and the complete area makes the Kyougi sen(or field of play). The choice of place for each card is kind of a characteristic of a Karuta player. Now, here's a image of my arrangement (down) and opponents (up). I generally shuffle and lay cards for my oppositfe field.
5. You now get 15 minutes to memorize the placement of cards. In the last two minutes you can practice swings imitating taking a card but you are not suosupp to touch them.
6. The 15 minutes end and the game begins......
The game proceeds......
7. You bow to your opponent and to the receiver and the game begins.
You must say Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu(Wishing good game to you) while bowing.
8. The reciter reads the poem Naniwazuni as the opening poem.
'Naniwa zu ni
Sakuya Kono Hana
Fuyu gomori
Ima wo harubeto
Sakuya kono Hana.'
This poem translates as ''In the Naniwa bay bay the blossoms bloom , the winter is passed now and the spring comes and the blossoms bloom'.
The second half of the poem is read and after a pause of one second, only yht first half of the poem is read from which we have to identify the card which bears the second half of the poem.
9. One who touches the card first gets the card. The motive is to reduce oneself's count of territory to 0. The player who succeeds is declared as the winner.
10. When you get a card from your side, you keep it in a neat pile beside yourself but if you get a card from opponent you are allowed to send a card from your territory to his/her territory. The choice of card to be given is yours and the choice of the position of the card in his/her territory is completely dependent on him/her.
This is what sending cards look like:
(You just have to place a card in the middle of the top row.)
Ok, one good rule of the Karuta is that you can push the card you want out while knocking the ones surrounding it to, but you have to place them back in same order(except the one which was read). However, this rule has a exception which is to be discussed later.
Continuing this, the cards on the field keep dwindling and the number of cards left on the losing side can be considered as a score. However, losing with one card or losing with 25 makes no difference.
Fun fact: The queen whose image is been idealised by the character Wakamiya Shinobu never lost a game to a Challenger in finals of Queen title. She holds the record of 10 straight titles and 20 victories.
Thank you!
Laying the cards
1.The game is played on tatami mat(If Judo mat can be made available it can do). You can also use tile floor but make sure that you have knee support. Don't hurt your knees.
2.The set of cards used is Ogura Hyakunin Isshu made by Oishi Tengudo. The players sit facing each other, bow to each other and shuffle cards in between them facing upside down.
(Cards placed on floor facing upside down)
3. Pick some cards from the shuffled cards and pick only 25 cards. I have no one to play with me so I select the cards for both sides. Playing alone is known as hitori renshu.(You can do that by making 5 decks of 5 cards each.)
4. Now, we place the 25 cards in the place between the players in the length approximately equal to 87 centimeters or length equal to row when 16 cards are laid side by side and the breadth equal to 3 rows of cards with space of 1cm each between the rows. The opponents area also known as territory is separated from yours by 3 cm and the complete area makes the Kyougi sen(or field of play). The choice of place for each card is kind of a characteristic of a Karuta player. Now, here's a image of my arrangement (down) and opponents (up). I generally shuffle and lay cards for my oppositfe field.
5. You now get 15 minutes to memorize the placement of cards. In the last two minutes you can practice swings imitating taking a card but you are not suosupp to touch them.
6. The 15 minutes end and the game begins......
The game proceeds......
7. You bow to your opponent and to the receiver and the game begins.
You must say Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu(Wishing good game to you) while bowing.
8. The reciter reads the poem Naniwazuni as the opening poem.
'Naniwa zu ni
Sakuya Kono Hana
Fuyu gomori
Ima wo harubeto
Sakuya kono Hana.'
This poem translates as ''In the Naniwa bay bay the blossoms bloom , the winter is passed now and the spring comes and the blossoms bloom'.
The second half of the poem is read and after a pause of one second, only yht first half of the poem is read from which we have to identify the card which bears the second half of the poem.
9. One who touches the card first gets the card. The motive is to reduce oneself's count of territory to 0. The player who succeeds is declared as the winner.
10. When you get a card from your side, you keep it in a neat pile beside yourself but if you get a card from opponent you are allowed to send a card from your territory to his/her territory. The choice of card to be given is yours and the choice of the position of the card in his/her territory is completely dependent on him/her.
This is what sending cards look like:
Ok, one good rule of the Karuta is that you can push the card you want out while knocking the ones surrounding it to, but you have to place them back in same order(except the one which was read). However, this rule has a exception which is to be discussed later.
Continuing this, the cards on the field keep dwindling and the number of cards left on the losing side can be considered as a score. However, losing with one card or losing with 25 makes no difference.
Fun fact: The queen whose image is been idealised by the character Wakamiya Shinobu never lost a game to a Challenger in finals of Queen title. She holds the record of 10 straight titles and 20 victories.
Thank you!
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