Players dressed in ancient costumes competed in the traditional Japanese card game karuta at a shrine in Kyoto for the first time in three years. Eight women in colorful kimonos attended the annual New Year event at Yasaka Shrine on Tuesday.
Players dressed in ancient costumes competed in the traditional Japanese card game karuta at a shrine in Kyoto for the first time in three years. Eight women in colorful kimonos attended the annual New Year event at Yasaka Shrine on Tuesday.
The shrine houses a mythological Japanese deity, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, who is said to have written the first tanka, a type of traditional Japanese poem.
The game contains a collection of Japanese tanka poems written by 100 poets from the 7th to the 13th centuries.
A reader recites the first half of a poem and players choose the card with the second half.