Category: Family
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Bozu Mekuri: Karuta for Beginners
Wow, it’s been a while. Recently, while playing with my wife and kids a game of karuta with our hyakunin isshu set, I learned about a simple, introductory way to enjoy the game without spending a lot of time learning the poems or mastering the rules of the competition. This simple game is called bōzu-mekuri…
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Update on Blog
Hi all, I just wanted to give a brief update to patient readers. If you saw on my other blog, you might have seen an announcement a few months ago: my wife is pregnant with our second child. Due date is in mid-October, so we’ve been busy preparing, plus I’m trying to be more helpful…
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Playing with Hyakunin Isshu cards
Edit: you can read a more up to date and detailed post about how to play karuta here. On a recent Saturday, my daughter, wife and I were stuck at home and a little bored, so we decided to play a little game. I took out a box of Hyakunin Isshu karuta or “cards” in…
The Hyakunin Isshu 