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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“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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