Hanafuda
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Template:Transliteration (Template:Langx<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Pakarnian, John, "Game Boy: Glossary of Japanese Gambling Games", Metropolis, January 22, 2010, p. 15.</ref>) are a type of Japanese playing cards. They are typically smaller than Western playing cards, only Template:Convert, but thicker and stiffer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On the face of each card is a depiction of plants, Template:Nihongo, animals, birds, or man-made objects.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> One single card depicts a human. The back side is usually plain, without a pattern or design of any kind, and traditionally colored either red or black. Template:Transliteration are used to play a variety of games including Template:Transliteration and Template:Transliteration.
Outside Japan
In Korea, Template:Transliteration are known as Template:Transliteration (Template:Langx, Hanja: Template:Langx) and made of plastic with a textured back side.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The most popular game is Go-stop (Template:Langx), commonly played during special holidays such as Lunar New Year and Template:Transliteration (Template:Langx).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In Hawaii, Template:Transliteration is used to play Sakura.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Transliteration is also played in Micronesia, where it is known as Template:Transliteration and is used to play a four-person game, which is often played in partnerships.<ref name="Hanahuda">Template:Cite web</ref>
History
Template:Main Playing cards were introduced to Japan by the Portuguese in the mid-16th century. The Portuguese deck consisted of 48 cards, with four suits divided into 12 ranks. The first Japanese-made decks made during the Tenshō period (1573–1592) mimicked Portuguese decks and are referred to as Tenshō Karuta. The main game was a trick-taking game intermediate in evolution between Triunfo and Ombre.<ref>Depaulis, Thierry (2009). "Playing the Game: Iberian Triumphs Worldwide". The Playing-Card. Vol 38-2, p. 134-137.</ref> After Japan closed off all contact with the Western world in 1633, foreign playing cards were banned.<ref>Harris, Blake J., Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, It Books, 2014-May-13. Template:ISBN. "Chapter 5"</ref>
In 1648, Template:Transliteration were banned by the Tokugawa shogunate.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During prohibition, gambling with cards remained highly popular which led to disguised card designs. Each time gambling with a card deck of a particular design became too popular, the government banned it, which then prompted the creation of a new design. This cat-and-mouse game between the government and rebellious gamblers resulted in the creation of increasingly abstract and minimalist regional patterns (地方札). These designs were initially called Yomi Karuta after the popular Poch-like game of Yomi which was known by the 1680s.<ref name="Kakkuri">Kuromiya Kimihiko. (2005). "Kakkuri: The Last Yomi Game of Japan". The Playing-Card, Vol 33-4. p. 232-235.</ref>
Through the Meiwa, An'ei, and Tenmei eras (roughly 1764–1789), a game called Mekuri took the place of Yomi. It became so popular that Yomi Karuta was renamed Mekuri Karuta.<ref name="Kakkuri" /> Mechanically, Mekuri is similar to Chinese fishing games.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Cards became so commonly used for gambling that they were banned in 1791, during the Kansei era. On the other hand, Uta-garuta such as Hyakunin Isshu were officially permitted as being educationally beneficial. So as a loophole to the ban, early hanafuda were made to have old poems on some of the cards, disguising them as Uta-garuta. Remnants of this can be seen via the tanzaku-ranked cards.
The earliest known reference to Template:Transliteration (a previous version of Template:Transliteration) is from 1816 when it was recorded as a banned gambling tool. The earliest decks contained between 12, 20, and even 32 suits, each with one high value card, one tanzaku card, and two low-value cards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
As Template:Transliteration modernized into Template:Transliteration, it standardized at 12 months (suits) with four rank-like categories. The majority of Template:Transliteration games are descended from Mekuri although Yomi adaptations for the flower cards survived until the 20th century.<ref name="Kakkuri" /> Though they can still be used for gambling, its structure and design is less convenient than other decks such as Kabufuda. In the Meiji period, playing cards became tolerated by the authorities.
In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo for the purposes of producing and selling hand-crafted Template:Transliteration.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nintendo has focused on video games since the 1970s but continues to produce cards in Japan, including themed sets based on Mario, Pokémon, and Kirby.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Koi-Koi game played with Template:Transliteration is included in Nintendo's own Clubhouse Games (2006) for the Nintendo DS, and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (2020) for the Nintendo Switch.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Though modern Japanese hanafuda is primarily made today by either of the long-standing Oishi Tengudo (1800) or Nintendo (1889), dozens of others have manufactured hanafuda, such as Angel, Tamura Shogundo, Matsui Tengudo, Ace, Maruē, and many more.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Hanafuda were likely introduced to Korea during the late 1890s<ref name="Kim">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Fairbairn">Template:Cite journal</ref> and to Hawaii in the early 1900s.<ref name=":1" /> Since then, companies and individuals in Korea and Hawaii have produced their own hanafuda, sometimes adapting the original Japanese imagery to fit either culture. Also made for western audiences are decks which fuse hanafuda with Toranpu (トランプ, "Trumps" a.k.a. the standard 52-card deck). These decks have indices on all their cards, and introduce a 13th suit which varies considerably by manufacturer (jokers, flowers, objects from Japanese imagery, left blank or used as a "snow" suit, left as western Kings, etc.).
Cards
There are 48 cards total, divided into twelve suits, representing months of the year. Each suit is designated by a flower and has four cards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> An extra blank card may be included to serve as a replacement. In Korean hwatu decks, several joker cards (조커패) award various bonuses.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The standard categorizations and point values for each card are as follows. Note that some games change the point values or categorizations of the cards. For example, in the game Template:Ill, all of the November cards count as kasu, and in the game Sakura, the values of the cards are different.
Text significance
A few cards in hanafuda contain Japanese text. In addition to the examples below, the December Template:Lang cards typically display the manufacturer's name and marks, similar to the Ace of spades in western playing cards.
| Cards | Description |
|---|---|
| Template:HanafudaTemplate:Hanafuda | Template:Nihongo with the hentaigana character Template:Hentaigana for ka. It is an old Japanese phrase that means "truly wonderful," related to the phrase Template:Nihongo in modern standard Japanese.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Template:Hanafuda | Template:Nihongo refers to Yoshino, Nara, known for its Somei-Yoshino hybrid cherry trees |
| Template:Hanafuda | Template:Nihongo |
Edo-period hanafuda frequently had poems on them in order to disguise themselves as uta-garuta (poem playing cards) with illustrations. This tradition continued on some cards produced after the ban on playing cards was lifted, but it is now rare. Cards that have lines of poetry on them are usually the less ornate kasu cards.
Cards made early after the end of the ban often had the name of the corresponding month on the tanzaku cards, and sometimes numbers on all the cards. This made it easier for new players to play games that require knowing what suit is associated with what number, such as Yomi-derived games and kabufuda games.
Korean
In Korean hwatu decks, the writing on the tanzaku cards is replaced with Korean text naming the type of card it is. Similar text is usually present on the blue tanzaku cards as well. In addition to the examples below, the manufacturer's name and marks are often prominently present on the various joker cards, and the manufacturer's logo is typically featured on the full moon card.
| Cards | Description |
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| Template:HwatuTemplate:HwatuTemplate:Hwatu | hongdan (Template:Korean), a calque of Japanese Template:Nihongo, short for Template:Nihongo |
| Template:HwatuTemplate:HwatuTemplate:Hwatu | cheongdan (Template:Korean), a calque of Japanese Template:Nihongo, short for Template:Nihongo |
| Template:Hwatu | su (cursive form of 壽 or 寿; "long life") |
Games
Template:Div col Mekuri-derived games:
- Template:Ill
- Hachi
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- Sudaoshi
- Tensho
Yomi-derived games:
- Template:Ill
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- Isuri
Gabo Japgi/Kabufuda-derived games:
Unicode
In Unicode, a symbol to represent Template:Transliteration is available at Template:Unichar in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This character is typically rendered as the Full Moon with Red Sky card.<ref name="emojipedia">Template:Cite web</ref> It was added as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 for compatibility with a KDDI emoji character,<ref name="utcL210132">Template:Cite web</ref> and was added to Unicode Emoji 1.0 in 2015.<ref name=emojipedia/>
In popular culture
Nintendo's Clubhouse Games and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics feature hanafuda and Koi-Koi.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Mario Kart Tour includes hanafuda-themed gliders. Other video games which feature Koi-Koi include the Yakuza series and Sakura Wars.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Hanafuda and sets of yaku are featured in fighting game series Samurai Shodown.
In the 2009 anime film Summer Wars, characters play Koi-Koi, a popular hanafuda game. In Naruto, three characters (Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Choji) form a group known as "Ino-Shika-Cho", a card combination found in several hanafuda games. In an anime-only episode of Dragon Ball, there is a boar-deer-butterfly hybrid creature called the InoShikaCho. In Demon Slayer, the main character Tanjiro Kamado has a pair of earrings that resemble the sun hikari.
In the popular trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, there is an archetype known as "Flower Cardian” with hanafuda motifs for various cards.
See also
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References
External links
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