Karuta Practice – Movement

From the Discord server, shared by “debugChicken”. Running time: 60 minutes 0) Draw 50 cards at random 1) Place the opponent’s 25 cards randomly 2) Place your 25 cards according to your placement 3) Find 3 card families that have an interesting disposition, mainly with cards present in both fields, define movement Repeat step 4 for the 3 card Families: […]

Karuta Practice – “Fudawake”

Shared by Alaric from the Discord server. See also: https://akitakonohana.wixsite.com/karuta/kisoren/ In short, the goal of fudawake is instead of just saying the kimariji of cards like fudanagashi, you separate each card by their first hiragana into different piles as fast as you can. A good goal might be trying to finish in 1 minute and 40 seconds, but apparently players […]

Karuta App Training

While the Competitive Karuta ONLINE app is far from a substitute for actual karuta, I personally feel it can still be useful as practice if used in the right way. For that, here are some tips/guidelines on how it can and can’t be useful: CPU Games: Aside from being a tool to initially learn karuta without the stress of having […]

Listening Training

One way to “train” yourself is to practice listening to the poems without actually playing. This can give various benefits: becoming more familiar with the sounds of the poems better focusing and calming the mind being able to pay more attention to the rhythm, especially as one poem ends and a new one is about to read being able to […]

Solo Practice

Though it may not be nearly as fun as playing with someone else—or ideal—”solo practice”, i.e. having a practice match with oneself, can be used to improve memorization, visualization, technique, and more. Laying out the cards: Though you can of course place the opponent’s cards based on your own layout, it may be more helpful to randomly place them from […]