Meaning of kabufuda | Babel Free

Definitions

Small, rigid Japanese playing cards, a single deck consisting of 40 cards with values ranging from 1 to 10, used for playing hand-comparing betting games such as oicho-kabu.

uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Nowhere do these cards survive in more interesting form than in Japan, where, as Mekuri-fuda or Kabu-fuda, they are used for gambling games.”

“The top features two playing cards: the topmost card is the sakura curtain card for March from a hanafuda deck, as found on the Shōwa Neon Takamura Kanban Museum example, and the other is the roppō, or number six card, taken from a kabufuda gambling deck.”

“As hanafuda became more common, they were often used in place of kabufuda decks, with November and December removed and the rest of the months serving as pips, January for the ones, February for the twos, etc.”

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