Sunkun karuta
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Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 0 and up. You can play with 0 to 0 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Trick-taking...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 0 |
| Minimum age: | 0 |
| Number of players: | 0 |
| Publisher: | (Public Domain) |
| Designers: | Unknown |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Trick-taking |
A traditional Japanese trick-taking card game played with a special 97-card six-suited deck. This deck developed from 75-card Unsun karuta deck, which derived from TenshÅ karuta, itself a close copy of the 48-card traditional Portuguese cards.
While Unsun karuta adds a fifth suit and three extra ranks per suit, Sunkun karuta further adds a sixth suit (arrows), a sixteenth rank (kun, ãã‚“) and a variant duplicate of a single card (the robai of hau).
While Unsun karuta survived into the modern era in a few locations, Sunkun karuta was rather short-lived.
Alternative names:
Sunkun karuta
すんくんかるた
Last Updated: 2025-10-21 12:43:41 UTC
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