Meaning
歌留多 (かるた, karuta) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “Japanese playing cards”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
お正月はかるたをして遊びます
We play cards on New Year's.
手が悪い（手跡なら）
to write a poor hand―
カルタを配ってください。
Please deal the cards.
旗本の屋敷で、歌留多の会が催された。
They met at the estate of the shogun's retainer to play a game of cards.
かるた（歌留多、加留多、嘉留太、骨牌）は、絵札を使う競技の一種。
Karuta (written as 歌留多, 加留多, 嘉留太, or 骨牌) is a kind of game using picture cards.
歌留多の会が百物語の会にでも変ったように、一種の暗い空気がこの一座を押し包んで、誰も彼もみな黙っていた。
Just as if the card gathering had turned into a ghost story telling party, a kind of dark mood had settled over those present and everyone was silent.
阿波踊りの女踊りでは一般の浴衣や上記の舞踊と異なり、襦袢、裾除け、手甲を付け、黒繻子の半幅帯を歌留多結びに結ぶ場合が多い(黒の名古屋帯の場合もある)。
Unlike the case of yukata or the above dancing, female dancers of Awa-odori dancing festival put on juban (undershirt for kimono), susoyoke (half-slip) and tekko (covering for the back of the hand and wrist) and tie a hanhaba obi made of black satin in karuta-musubi knot (a black Nagoya obi is also used).