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Japanese Sushi Mahjong Set Available on TripleClicks!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:45:00 +0000

The unique Japanese Sushi Mahjong set is back (again!). This time I am featuring it on http://tripleclicks.com. Simple click the link and type "mahjong" into the search field at the top of the TripleClicks site.

I used to sell this set on my website, http://japanese-mahjong.com but it was unavailable for a long time and I have only just found a new supply.

Full details are available on the http://tripleclicks.com site.

David Hurley

Special Deal For A Standard Japanese Mahjong Set on Tripleclicks.com!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:58:00 +0000

Launched in January 2009, Tripleclicks is an online marketplace where you can list and sell hundreds of items that you want to get rid of.

The beauty of Tripleclicks is that it is simple and easy to use, cheap to post your listings on and also - this is a real money saver - you can keep them posted for as long as you like without having to pay again if your stuff doesn't sell in the first 7 days...

Security for the Shopper

Also, when you buy something, you pay Tripleclicks, and they only release the money to the seller after you have received the goods!

Japanese-Games-Shop Now Listing On Tripleclicks!

Japanese-Games-Shop has just started posting goods and special offers on Tripleclicks.

At the moment I only have one item on the site, a Standard Japanese Mahjong Set at my LOWEST PRICE EVER! The tiles are the same quality as the Sango set, but because the set comes in a very basic case and lacks the "Sango" logo, it sells for $45.oo - a few dollars less than the Sango set - on my website.

However, you can get it for just $35 (plus shipping) on Tripleclicks!

Click the link below to see the set:

http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=12310

Japanese Mahjong Set - Only $35 on Tripleclicks!

David Hurley
http://japanese-mahjong.com

See also: http://www.tripleclicks.com/bargains

Crazy Red Sweating Sparrow Yakitori Tesserae Are BACK!!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Yosh! A long out-of-stock item returns!

The crazy red sweating sparrow Yakitori tesserae are back with a vengeance and available at: Japanese-Mahjong.com .

In Japanese mahjong, the Yakitori tile is an optional extra. You have to keep your Yakitori on the table until you complete a hand. If at the end of a game you still have your Yakitori on the table, you have to pay the other players a fine! That is what makes the red sparrow look so miserable... it has been skewered!

The Vinyl Hanafuda Deck Is Back!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:53:00 +0000

Just a quick post to inform Hanafuda fans that the popular "Vinyl Hanafuda Deck" is once again available on Japanese-Games-Shop.com.

I was able to get hold of a few decks on Monday evening and updated my site on Thursday morning. Not sure how many more of these decks are going to be available, but FOR NOW, they are back!

Best wishes,

David Hurley
Japanese-Games-Shop.com

TAKE Mahjong Key Chain Note

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:20:00 +0000

The TAKE Japanese Mahjong set that I sell on my site comes with a free "black tile Mahjong key chain".

Please note, however, that the character on the key chain varies from set to set. The set that I photographed for my website had a West key chain.

When I first uploaded the details I assumed EVERY set came with a West key chain, but this is not the case, so I have modified the description of the set.

See:

http://japanese-mahjong.com/takemjset.html

David Hurley

Cheap Shogi Sets: Shogi Price Reductions

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Good news for Shogi players!

I have found a way to lower the price of two of the shogi sets available on my site so I can now offer two cheap shogi sets...

The "Shogi In A Box" set is now $16.50, down from $19.50...

The "Hanayama Honkaku Shogi" set is now $19.50, down from $28.50!!

David Hurley
Cheap Shogi Sets

New Combination: Japanese Mahjong Set AND Junk Mat!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:38:00 +0000

I just added another new product to the listings on Japanese-Mahjong.com...

Introducing, the Japanese Standard MJ set AND JUNK Mat combination!

Now you can get standard Japanese mahjong tiles, score sticks, wind marker and dice together with one of the popular "JUNK mats".

The bag that holds the JUNK mat has pockets in the sides where you store the mahjong tiles and score sticks etc.

It makes for a very convenient set, which can be carried easily.

For more details go to: http://japanese-mahjong.com/mahjong-tiles-and-mat.html.

David Hurley
Japanese-Mahjong.com

Black Mahjong Set & JUNK Mat Combi Offer is BACK!!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Black Mahjong and Mahjong JUNK Playing Mat Combi Set

A while ago I ran a nice combination offer of a complete set of black mahjong tiles plus a mahjong JUNK mat for just $99 plus S&H.

The good news is that the offer is back, at exactly the same price as before.

For more details go to: http://japanese-mahjong.com/blackmjcombi.html

The mahjong tiles are stored in trays that slip inside specially designed pockets on the JUNK mat bag so the whole combi-set is easy to carry with you whenever you want to play away.

Shipping: Express Mail Service worldwide, direct from Japan.

David Hurley
Japanese-mahjong.com

New Matsuoka Mahjong Wind Marker

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:04:00 +0000

The classic Matsuoka Wind marker for Japanese Mahjong has changed!

Out with the orange-black-white and in with the white-red-black!

The new design makes it very easy to see at a glance the presiding wind.

The katakana script on the tile reads "Matsuoka", "Century NEXT".

The Matsuoka Mahjong Wind marker is available at http://japanese-mahjong.com

Back from my Holidays! The JGS Spring Clean Is Now Underway!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:46:00 +0000

Blore Hall, Peak District, February 2009: Heading for our early morning swim...

Bodiam Castle, Sussex, England, March 2nd 2009

Two and a half weeks in England and hardly any time spent on a computer!

The upper photo shows my daughter in front of Blore Hall, where we stayed for a week. It is about 7am and we are off to have a swim and a sauna.

The lower photo is of Bodiam Castle in Sussex. We spent the last few days of our holiday in the Weald of Kent close to the sussex border and as my daughter had told me she wanted to visit a castle in England (in search of Prince Charming, I think), Bodiam was the ideal choice.

It is now two and a half weeks since we returned to Japan and I have only just got around to updating Japanese-Games-Shop.com. It was in dire need of a spring clean!

Here is what I did to the site yesterday evening, this afternoon and this evening:

Added a 23-rod and a 27-rod Tomoe abacus to the Japanese Soroban page.
Updated the manga pages: Some of Kodansha's bilingual manga are difficult to get hold of now, so I have replaced my own listings with Amazon.com listings.
Posted new photos of the Nintendo New Ivory Mahjong Set on Japanese-Mahjong.com and updated the product page.
Put in some major renovation work on the Hanafuda page. One link on that page directed people to a former website of mine that died more than two years ago!! All is spick and span now, dead links have been cropped, new Amazon listings have been added and the Hanafuda-Style Playing Cards are available again.
The Shogi pages had gradually degenerated as stocks ran out towards the end of last year. Also, for some reason, one of the new sets was not showing. I have now re-listed the Hanayama Honkaku Shogi Set and added a new full-sized economy set, Shogi In A Box, which I think will prove popular. The Shogi pages are a work in progress at present.

Shogi In A Box

Tomoe 23-Rod Soroban - Get your head round that!

There will be several more announcements coming shortly... New shogi koma and possibly boards too... New mahjong accessories... and some completely new lines of goods too...

Watch this space!

Holiday Notice

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:28:00 +0000

I'm taking my daughter to England for a couple of weeks, 15th February until 6th March.

We'll be staying at my mother's place. One of my jobs is to clear her attic of my books and other stuff. 26 boxes of books, many of them hardbacks collected over the last 30 years, will be on their way to Japan!

Then we are taking mother to the Peak District where we'll stay for a week in a 600 y.o. property. My daughter is excited at the thought of sleeping in a four-poster bed!

After that, off to Kent to see more relatives.

Did I call it a holiday?? :-)

Anyway, the website is "open for business" while I am away, BUT the next shipment of goods will not be until Monday 9th March at the earliest.

After I return I want to overhaul the site and add some new lines, but I will talk more about that in an upcoming post.

Genki de, ne!

DH
Japanese Games Shop

Hanayama Honkaku Shogi Set

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:57:00 +0000

Hanayama produce some excellent games sets. They are always well designed and attractively packaged.

Recently, Hanayama added a new shogi game to their listings: The Honkaku Shogi set.

The board and pieces are made of plastic and the board has two built in drawers where the pieces are stored. The neat thing about the drawers is that they are set in each side of the board and you can pull them out and use them as trays to hold the pieces that you capture during the course of the game. (In shogi, when you capture a piece you can use it later as one of your own pieces and "parachute" it onto the board.)

If you are looking for an unusual and attractive Christmas present for a youngster, this would be ideal!

All orders will be shipped from Japan by Express Mail Service, so if you order before 10th December, you'll get it in time for Christmas!

To find out more and order a set, go to http://japanese-games-shop.com/shogi.html

How Many Shogi Koma Make Up A Single Set Of Pieces?

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Feedback and enquiries from customers or potential customers is always informative!

Here is an email I received just now:

"About the shogi pieces, when you write "complete set of pieces" is that for one or two players?
Just to know how many I need to buy."

That is a very good question! It is also helps me to see things better from the customer's point of view. When I wrote the phrase "complete set of pieces" it seemed obvious to me that it meant 40 pieces - enough for two players to play a game of shogi.

But, actually, it is not so obvious. Just because I deal with shogi sets every day and am used to my own terminology does not mean that it is clear to someone who might be interested in buying a set from me. The customer comes to my site with no prior knowledge of me or the goods I offer.

So, let's be clear about this... my website offers "complete sets of shogi pieces that contain 40 pieces - all the pieces that two players need to play a game on one board". (Some sets include a spare piece, to make a total of 41 pieces!)

David Hurley
http://japanese-games-shop.com

I'm Back From My Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:27:00 +0000

Got back from our family holiday in Austria yesterday afternoon. I have now taken the "away on holiday" notices down from http://japanese-games-shop.com and http://japanese-mahjong.com and so am officially "back in business".

If you have never been to the Austrian Alps before, I recommend it!

I also recommend 10 days away from computers and the Internet!

While I was away in Austria I received my largest order ever, from a mahjong club based in... Austria! I'll start working on it on Monday morning!

Ich danke Ihnen für Ihren Einkauf!

David Hurley
http://japanese-games-shop.com

Autumn Break In The Alive-With-Music Hills!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:04:00 +0000

We are off to Austria on a family holiday, so there will be no more shipments of goods until October 2nd at the earliest!

If you do not mind waiting, you may still purchase any of the items on Japanese-Games-Shop.com, but acknowledgment of your order and turnaround will be delayed.

We will be staying in Viehhofen, between Salzburg and Zell Am See. My daughter has been preparing for the adventure by watching The Sound Of Music, and studying German with the help of Shuan The Sheep - er, sorry, Shaun Das Schaf!

Pamper Your Mahjong Craving By Playing On A High Quality, Robust, Mahjong Mat!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:50:00 +0000

Do you suffer from a mahjong craving? Then you should consider pampering your craving by playing mahjong on a high quality, robust, Japanese mahjong mat!

I have just upgraded the shipping method for the heavier of the two mahjong playing mats that are available on my website at http://japanese-mahjong.com/mjmat.html.

I noticed that the information about that mat was confusing as I had posted two different shipping rates. Also, due to the weight of the mat I used to ship it by surface mail to save the customer shipping charges.

There is no problem with shipping rubber-backed mahjong mats from Japan by surface mail, since the mats are so robust they can survive the journey in good condition. The problems are that surface mail takes sooo long and also that it is less reliable than express mail service. As if that was not enough, surface mail has no tracking service.

So, I have taken another look at the situation and decided to... gulp... cover the extra costs of Express Mail Service shipping on this item MYSELF.

Now, whichever of the two mats you buy, you will get it much more quickly as they both are now being shipped by EMS - and you'll be able to follow the progress of your parcel via the EMS tracking service... Delivery is within a week of dispatch in most cases.

Did I mention that insurance is included in the shipping price?

So, mahjong players, pamper your mahjong craving by playing on a high quality mahjong mat! Head over to http://japanese-mahjong.com/mjmat.html and get yourself a mahjong mat!

Best wishes,

David Hurley
http://japanese-mahjong.com

Japanese Mini Mahjong Set With Transparent Tiles!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:58:00 +0000

I have just updated my range of Japanese mahjong sets to include a new Mini Mahjong Set With Transparent Tiles

One improvement, I think, is the new-style Japanese acrylic mini mj set I just added. Now every single tile is transparent, so you can watch your opponents' every move - but go careful how you read those difficult character tiles!!

The craze for playing with transparent mahjong tiles developed out of the Akagi manga series, in which the hero, Akagi has to play in a game using a set of tiles with 3 out of 4 tiles being transparent. If he loses he has to have so much blood drawn from his body... If he keeps on losing and he'll die of blood loss...

The mini mj set is really a novelty or party set, or a portable holiday set. The score sticks and dice are also mini-size. The dice are especially microscopic!!

Check out the Japanese Mini Mahjong Transparent Tile Set!

New Disney Hanafuda Deck Added To My Listings

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Disney has given a Japanese games company called Angel a license to produce a novelty Hanafuda card deck with Disney characters on the cards.

Hanafua card decks were first made in Japan over 350 years ago as a Japanese response to the introduction of Western-style playing cards.

A hanafuda card deck consists of 48 cards divided into 12 suits of four cards each. Each “suit” is named after a month of the year and portrays a flower that blossoms during that month.

The word “Hanafuda” can be literally translated as “flower cards”.

For more details about hanafuda decks in general and the Disney/Angel hanafuda deck in particular, check out Japanese-Games-Shop.com.

David Hurley
http://Japanese-Games-Shop.com

New Hand Carved Japanese Shogi Koma Added To The Range!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:32:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was planning to add a new set of hand carved shogi pieces to my range of top quality shogi koma sets.

It took me a while, but at last, today, I have done it!

The set is hand carved by craftsman Yamagami, using a deep-cut carving style. The style is very distinctive, as can be seen in the above photo.

The wood used for this set is Siamese boxwood.

For more photos and details about the set, click here.

David Hurley
http://japanese-games-shop.com

Yamato The White Fighter by Takahashi Yoshihiro Now Available!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Takahashi Yoshinori is famous in Japan as the creator of some of the most violent, and at the same time most appealing, manga stories to be published in Shonen Jump monthly comic for boys (but also read by quite a few girls).

In Takahashi Yoshinori's manga world it is very much a case of dog-eat-dog. He made his mark both in Japan and in Scandanavia with the publication of Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, a story about a Japanese Akita dog called Gin who goes in search of his father, Riki, deep in the Oku mountains of northern Honshu, where both humans and dogs are menaced by a sleuth of wild bears.

In the wake of that success, Takahashi created the Weed series, about the son of Gin. Then he brought out a prequel that describes the life and times of Gin's father, Riki, and his father, Shiro.

I just added Ginga Densetsu Riki to my site as these comic books, published in 2003 and 2007, are no longer so difficult to get on the secondary market.

Takahashi Yoshiro has also written a manga series called Shiroi Senshi Yamato, or Yamato the White Fighter. The story set in the world of Japanese Tosa fighting dogs. The fights depicted in the manga series are quite brutal, although the aim of Tosa dog fighting is not to fight to the death, but to fight until one dog loses spirit within a bout of up to thirty minutes.

If a dog loses the fight, but shows an undaunted spirit, then it stands a good chance of winning the competition on spirit alone.

The series is available in Ten volumes, and I have made every volume available as there seems to be a reasonable supply of them at the moment... although the secondary market fluctuates from week to week, as you will appreciate.

See: Japanese-Games-Shop.com/manga.html

New Japanese Study Dictionary Added To Listings!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:48:00 +0000

I just removed the Japanese Buddhist Proverb Dictionary from my listings as it seems no longer to be available.

However, I have replaced it with an excellent Japanese language study tool:

The "Yoji Jukugo Jiten"

That is to say, being interpreted, the "Four-Character Japanese Idiom Dictionary".

As readers of one of my other blogs will be aware, Japanese words or idioms consisting of four characters (or Kanji) are the ultimate challenge of language proficiency, so getting some of them learned by heart is a must for the ambitious student of Japanese...

Here is a small selection of the yoji jukugo featured in the dictionary:

Isshokenmei Isshokenmei ni yarimashita (I gave it everything I had.)
Jigojitoku Jigojitoku da. (You brought it upon yourself.)
Anchumosaku (Groping in the dark.)
Bozenjishitsu (So completely disoriented that you have lost sight of yourself.)
Gyokusekikonko (A jumble of jewels and rocks; a mixed bag.)

The dictionary costs just $3.50 and is available from http://japanese-games-shop.com/nihongo.html

David Hurley
http://japanese-games-shop.com

Spring Pruning and Planting!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:30:00 +0000

The cherry blossom season has come and gone in Hiroshima and now the dogwood trees are out in bloom.

Meanwhile, over at Japanese-Games-Shop.com some pottering, pruning and planting has been going on behind the scenes....

Some items have been pruned from the listings.

OUT:

Various sized mahjong dice - hardly an "in demand" line since most sets come with dice supplied. Then, when an order comes in I can rely on my supplier to be "out of stock" in the particular size and colour I require!!
Plywood Shogi boards. Supplies became erratic in this neck of the woods.
Beige Shogi cloths... Supplies seem to be erratic but a few still get through...

NEW LINES COMING SOON

An "curvacious" style of high-quality hand-crafted Shogi koma.
Glass Shogi sets!!
Plastic Shogi playing mats.
Igo boards
Igo stones
Igo bowls
Novelty character (Doraemon?) mini igo sets

In short, authentic Japanese games lovers, "Watch this space"!!

David Hurley

http://japanese-games-shop.com/

How to Read a Mahjong Tile Before it is Your Turn to Take it From the Wall!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:30:00 +0000

This is an article I recently posted to Articlesbase.com about the practice of "thumb-reading" tiles in Japanese mahjong.

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Modern Japanese mahjong tiles are made of a synthetic nylon material with the symbols for the suit numbers, winds and dragons stamped onto the face of the tiles. The face of every tile in a set can be distinguished not only by the design that you see, but also by the design that you can FEEL when you rub your thumb across the face of the tile!

And that is just what many of the more experienced Japanese mahjong players like to do in the course of a game - use feel the concealed face of the tile next to be taken from the wall with their thumbs! Yes, not a few seasoned hands have become competent at tile-reading by rubbing the indentations on tile-face with their thumbs.

It takes hours of practice to get to the point where you can accurately distinguish each of the 34 different tile faces of a standard Japanese mahjong set with your thumb, and there seems to be little advantage in being able to do so. It is a diverting party trick and it also adds some kudos to a player's game if the player can pluck a tile from the wall, announce what it is and discard it without so much as glancing at it. Mahjong is most exciting when played swiftly, so being able to read a tile without looking at it may be said to help the cause of speedy play, but apart from that there does not seem to be much practical profit in taking the trouble to learn the skill.

However, there is one case where a "thumb-reader" could glean some useful information about an opponent's tile. Experienced mahjong players enjoy playing a fast-paced game so if one player hesitates before discarding a tile, the player to his right is likely to have reached for "his" tile on the end of the wall before the first player has discarded. An experienced tile-reader places his thumb under the tile on the wall that he is about to take so that he can "read" it while waiting for his turn.

But then, when a discarded tile is claimed by another player as an open "Pon" the sequence of play is broken and the player who was waiting to take a tile - and who has now "read" it with his thumb - is passed over so the tile will most likely end up in another player's hand. In that case the "thumb reader" will know what the tile is and will perhaps pay attention to where it is placed in the other player's hand.

Some people might object that such a practice is a form of cheating, but others counter that it is just part parcel of the Japanese approach to the game.

Of course that is not to say that the player who took the tile from the wall cannot resort to some deceptive tactics of his own by adding the tile to a random place in his hand while appearing to concentrate on placing it carefully into position so as to mislead the "thumb-reader" as to the construction of the hand.

Whatever your attitude towards players reading tiles with their thumbs may be, that it can be done at all shows you how sensitive the human thumb - or "oya-yubi" in Japanese - can be.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/how-to-read-a-mahjong-tile-before-it-is-your-turn-to-take-it-from-the-wall-367683.html

About the Author:

This is the place where I try to persuade you, my fellow Japanese mahjong fanatic, that you ought to hot foot it over to my website, Japanese-Games-Shop.com and blow a large chunk of your hard earned wages (or ill gotten gains) on a seriously expensive, exclusive, utterly exotic, Japanese mahjong set. I recommend the Nintendo Yakuman New Ivory Japanese Mahjong Set, possibly the most expensive Japanese mahjong set this side of the Milky Way.

NEW Japanese Gift Certificates!

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:32:00 +0000

Thanks to the versatility of Paypal, I have been able to add an exciting new feature to the front page of Japanese-Games-Shop.com - Paypal Gift Certificates!

That means it is now possible for you to solve your present-buying problems by sending your friend or relative a gift certificate which can be cashed in at my website!!

Gift certificates range from an economical $10 to a positively generous $1,000 (just in case you'd like to treat your loved one to a pair of hand made Jun Hitoe vases from the Nishimoto Gallery ).

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Property For Sale in Japan!

If you think buying your own house in Japan would be expensive, think again...

You can get a detached two-storey house in a pleasant hillside location not far from Hiroshima Station for just ¥9,000,000, or $90,000. True, it is in need of renovation, but the property company whose books it is on informs me that they can completely renovate the interior for ¥5,000,000.

For further details, drop me a line via the form on the front page of Japanese-Games-Shop.com

David Hurley

http://japanese-games-shop.com

Japanese Card Game: Iroha Karuta

noreply@blogger.com (David Hurley) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:41:00 +0000

One traditional card game which some Japanese people still play over the New Year's holidays is karuta. The word "karuta" comes from the Portuguese word for playing cards, "carta".

A karuta deck is divided into two sets of cards. One set is called yomifuda or "reading cards", and the other is called torifuda or "taking cards." You need at least three people to make a game of karuta, the reader and the competitors.

The torifuda are spread out face up. The reader takes a card from the top of his yomifuda deck and reads it aloud to the players. The players immediately try to find the card that matches the reading. After all the cards have been taken, the winner is the player with the most cards.

There are two types of karuta game, "uta-karuta" and "iroha-karuta".

In "uta-karuta", popularly known as "hyakunin isshu", the reader reads the first two lines of a classical tanka (five line poem) and the players try to find the card with the last two lines written on it. To play that game you need to be familiar with the 100 poems that make up the card deck.

Iroha karuta are more accessible to the foreign student of Japanese as anyone who can read the hiragana can play. The yomifuda consist of a series of famous Japanese proverbs and the torifuda are illustrated with colourful drawings of the respective proverbs and have the initial kana in one corner of the card. Each letter of the hiragana syllabary has its own proverb.

I recently added a new iroha karuta deck to my site, the lively "Edo" set, evocative of a time in pre-industrial Japan when there was no concrete, no "bridges to nowhere" and all the men wore top knots and loin cloths.

The two proverbs shown in the photo on the right are:

Ino mo arukeba bou ni ataru. - A strolling dog will find a stick.
Nodo moto sugireba atsusa wasureru. - Once swallowed, heat forgotten.

David Hurley
Japanese-Games-Shop.com