Playing Uta-Garuta
Japanese women playing Uta-garuta is the most popular among the many kinds of karuta (card games) in Japan. It is played mostly on New Year's Day, but there are also national conventions for playing uta-garuta. Each card has a poem, or portion there of, written on it with a total of one hundred poems in the game. The standard collection of poems used were chosen by Fujiwara no Teika, who was a poet in Heian period, though he was not responsible for creating the game.
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