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Japanese card-game (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
This game is based on a collection of tanka (31-syllable poems) compiled by Fujiwara Sadaie in the 15th century and known as the Hyakunin isshu. The collecxion includes one poem by each of one hundred poets, among whom were emperors, scholars and novelists, both men and women. Two hundred cards are used in the game; half carry a portrait of the poet and the complete poem, the rest have the second half of the poem only. The leader of the game calls out the first half of a poem from the portrait cards and the players try to complete the poem from the matching cards laid out on the tatami The game became popular around the 17th century and it is still played as an elegant pastime during the New Year holidays.