Kyoto Karuta Hand Puppets This beautifully shaped and painted

This beautifully shaped and painted Japanese toy is called usagi-no-mochiya

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Kyoto Karuta Hand Puppets This beautifully shaped and paintedKaruta is a traditional Japanese card game. It is possible to play a variety of card games with a deck of karuta cards such as iroha garuta, obake karuta and uta garuta. The two kinds of cards used in games of karuta are "reading cards" or yomifuda () and "grabbing cards" or torifuda (). The game of karuta from the Portuguese word carta is a good way to learn the hiragana alphabet of the Japanese language and have a lot of fun along the way. This pack