Elena VOYTISHEK    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  , Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Professor
Language	Russian
Publication Date	1999/10
Type	Book(s)
Title	Iroha cards. Ancient intellectual Japanese game
Contribution Type	Single author
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Total page number	７８
Details	The monograph gives a brief excursion into the history of the development of traditional intellectual card games in Japan; uta-karuta, iroha karuta, hanafuda etc. Particular attention is paid to the description of the history of the game based on the ancient poetic alphabet iroha. A detailed analysis of 120 proverbs in the author's translation is carried out, Russian equivalents and historical and philological comments are given.