Hyakunin-Isshu Game
2018年01年27日 | diary
We 8th graders had “Hyakunin-Isshu Game” on January 11th.
“Hyakunin-Isshu” is a traditional Japanese card game.
It has a set of cards of the best 100 old poems.
Each poem consists of two parts.
We call the first half “Kami-no-ku” and the second half “Shimo -no-ku”.
First,all of the cards are spread out on the floor,usually between two players sitting face to face.
Each card has only the “Shimo-no-ku” on it.
Then,the teacher reads the “Kami-no-ku” at random,and the players try to find and get the card with “Shimo-no-ku” on it.
They must get it more quickly than their opponent so they usually slap it away with their hand.
The card may fly!
The player who gets the most cards wins.
Usually “Hyakunin-Isshu” is played by 2 players.
But this time we enjoyed it among 8 players.
My favorite poem is “Hana-sasou Arashi-no-niwa-no Yuki-nara-de” (Kaminoku).
“Furiyuku-mono-ha Wagami-narikeri” (Shimonoku).
It means “Storm blows cherry blossoms like snow.
Actually, it is not the blossoms that a falling, but it is me who is getting older and older.
Playing the game was pretty fun,we could learn a lot from beautiful poems.
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