N21500/1725

歌留多カルタ

gairaigoPortuguese originatejirarely used kanji formusually written using kana alonenounnoun (generic)

Meanings

karuta, traditional Japanese playing cards, esp. hyakunin isshu karuta or iroha karuta(explanation)

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Example sentences

お正月しょうがつに家族かぞくで歌留多かるたをして楽たのしんだ。

We had fun playing karuta with the family during New Year's.

百人一首ひゃくにんいっしゅの歌留多かるたは子供こどもの頃ころから親したしんでいる。

I have been familiar with hyakunin isshu karuta since childhood.

彼女かのじょは歌留多かるたが得意とくいで、いつも誰だれより早はやく札ふだを取とる。

She is good at karuta and always picks up the cards faster than anyone else.

その博物館はくぶつかんでは江戸えど時代じだいに使つかわれていた歌留多かるたが展示てんじされている。

The museum displays karuta cards that were used during the Edo period.

歌留多かるた大会たいかいに向むけて、彼かれは百首ひゃくしゅすべての和歌わかを暗記あんきしようとしている。

In preparation for the karuta competition, he is trying to memorize all one hundred waka poems.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)