Tag: high school
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Recovering from Japan earthquake, reviving Japanese culture
In light of the terrible damage and trauma from the Great Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, I found this article by the Asahi Shinbun very touching. As mentioned in this post, high-schools in Japan often have a karuta club of some kind devoted to the Hyakunin Isshu poetry anthology, and the game which involves grabbing the…
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Hyakunin Isshu in High School
One subject I haven’t covered here much is the subject of the Hyakunin Isshu is the karuta card-game. I’ve talked about it on my other blog, but I saw this recent article on the Asahi Shinbun newspaper and wanted to talk this one in particular. As the article explains, the Hyakunin Isshu card-game is one…
The Hyakunin Isshu 