Nounkaruta gathering (for playing uta-garuta) · competitive karuta association

Nounarmor covered with small rectangular plates of metal

Nounkaruta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading

Nounplaying karuta

Nounhorse · horse racing · promoted bishop

Nounmaster; expert · Meijin (professional title) · Meijin (highest title for male players in competitive karuta)

Noun(family) crest; coat of arms · pattern; figure · playing card suit (in karuta)

Nounone shot; one charge; one explosion · one blow; one punch · home run

Nounend; finish; place to stop · bound; limit; end · delivery date (of a futures contract)

Nounqueen · queen · queen (chess piece)

Nounwhite label; white tag · white card (in karuta); blank card · honour awarded to samurai in Tosa

Nounface card; court card · picture card (in utagaruta or iroha karuta)

Nounend; bottom; worst · king (court card; in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)

Nounuseless card (in karuta); worthless card · card only worth 1 point

Nounprogram board (concert, theatrical production); act-announcement sheets · mekuri karuta

Nounnine (in mekuri karuta) · oicho-kabu (traditional Japanese gambling game)

Nouneight (in mekuri karuta) · third-rank prostitute in the Kyoto red-light districts

Noun(family) crest; coat of arms · playing card suit (in karuta)

Noun2 of batons (high-scoring card in mekuri karuta)

Nounace of batons (high-scoring card in mekuri karuta)

Nounreader (in competitive karuta); reciter; person who reads the cards

Noundead card (comp. karuta); cards that are not present at the start of the match

Nounread card (comp. karuta)

Nounreader (person) · person who reads the cards (in karuta games) · composer (of a poem)

Nounrecipient; receiver; acceptor; taker · skilled practitioner (of judo, sumo, etc.) · person who picks up the cards (in karuta games)

Nouncard to pick up (esp. in hyakunin isshu karuta, i.e. the card printed with the second half of a poem)

NounMeijin-sen (annual professional shogi title match) · Meijin-sen (annual professional go tournament) · Meijin-sen (annual competitive karuta title match)

Nouncard to be read (e.g. in hyakunin isshu karuta, iroha karuta)

Nounsleeper; lumber girder · last player of three (in mekuri karuta)

Noun10 of batons (in mekuri karuta)

Noun(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu · hyakunin isshu karuta

Noundragon card (in unsun karuta)

Nounsota (court card in unsun karuta and mekuri karuta)

Nounōyamafuda (comp. karuta); the six cards with six-mora-long kimariji

Nounharai-te (comp. karuta); sweeping take; one of the fundamental styles of taking cards

Nounkakoi-te (comp. karuta); covering take; style of taking cards, mostly used for cards with long kimariji

Nounkakomi-te (comp. karuta); covering take; style of taking cards, mostly used for cards with long kimariji

Nounplaying field boundary (comp. karuta)

Nounopponent's territory (comp. karuta); the section of the playing field where one's opponent places their cards

Nounsent card (comp. karuta); card sent to one's opponent

Noun(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets · hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

Nountouching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz) · making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant) · foul (comp. karuta); touching a card which is not in the same territory as the correct card

Nounkimariji (comp. karuta); beginning characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu

Noundraw pile · mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)

Nounkaruta maker; maker of traditional Japanese cards

Nounkaruta box; playing card case · money-exchange shop coin box

Nountensho (game originally played with a Tensho karuta)

Nounosae-te (comp. karuta); one of the fundamental styles of taking cards

Nouncorrect card (comp. karuta); card on the field corresponding to the defuda