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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.
Activities
Karuta Workshop
Creative Karuta Award
Karuta Festival
Original karuta cards
Voices from winners
Achievements
Teams
Honorary Chairman
Tammy Stewart-Jones
Tammy Is the mother of UK Karuta bringing Karuta to the UK through the ‘My Thanet’ Karuta joint project in 2012.