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Karuta 2020 project
Karuta 2020 project is to help people globally learn, create and play a traditional Japanese card game, Karuta.
We offered three programmes: Karuta Workshop, Creative Karuta Award and Karuta Festival.
The project ended in June 2021 with over 5000 participants from 83 countries.
What’s karuta?
- Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game around a theme.
- We use text cards and matching picture cards to play karuta.
- The above photo shows a set of karuta cards themed around various countries.
How to play Karuta
- Spread out the picture cards facing up on the mat, and the players sit around the cards.
- A card reader reads a clue aloud, and the players compete by touching the picture card that matches the clue.
- The player who touches the picture card first wins it.
- Read the next clue and continue playing.
- The winner is the player with the most picture cards at the end of the game.