Karuta (かるた karuta, a corruption of Portuguese carta ["card"])[1] is a Japanese card game.
The basic idea of any karuta game is to be able to quickly determine
which card out of an array of cards is required and then to grab the
card before it is grabbed by an opponent. There are various types of
cards which can be used to play karuta. It is also possible to play this
game using two standard decks of playing cards.
There are two kinds of cards used in karuta. One kind is yomifuda
(読札) or "reading cards", and the other is torifuda (取り札) or "grabbing
cards." As they were denoted, the words in the yomifuda are read and
players will have to find its associated torifuda before anybody else
does.
Karuta was a type of armour worn by samurai warriors and their retainers during the feudal era of Japan. The word karuta comes from the Portuguese word meaning "card", (carta)[1] as the small square or rectangular plates that compose the armour resemble the cards of a Japanese card game.
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