Playing With Myself

Aug 03, 2008 01:43

... no, not that way. Not this time, at least. ^^;;;;

I mentioned looking at old Japanese books, which in turn had me looking at an old Hakunin Isshu card set; I was going to show Carl the game, which is still played to this day, and I found this page, featuring the "Hen-Tsukuri Karuta", and its modern variant Kanji Hakushi. The basic concept is ( Read more... )

漢字, cards, 古本, carl, games

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muckefuck August 4 2008, 15:16:58 UTC
Bring 'em to my house, bitch, and I'll open my can of pre-War whup-ass.

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geargail August 6 2008, 05:27:08 UTC
Interesting webpage... reminds me a little bit like scrabble.

The funny part is how you can place cards vertical and horizontal. Then just add one more to the left side to add another word concept. This is something to get a persons' brain matter to process stuff on the Right Hemisphere.

Keep in mind though,

Many people get frightend by games that can't be easily interprited.

Somehow, I ended up thinking in terms of how someone would play with a deck of Tarot Cards, wanting to know if the meaning is altered if you put one card up or over another.

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