Meaning
加留多 (かるた, karuta) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “(pt:) (n) playing cards (pt: carta)”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 6
お 正月はかるたをして 遊びます
We play cards on New Year's.
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" (in Chinese characters, written as "
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.
歌留多," "加留多," "嘉留太," or "骨牌") is a kind of a Japanese game using picture cards.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).