Rules

Want to learn more about the rules of competitive karuta? Here are some resources to help you out:

Rules/Tutorial Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA6-ZeIAxu8

“Simple Rules” – http://karuta.game.coocan.jp/simplerule-e.html
“Detailed Rules” – http://karuta.game.coocan.jp/detailedrule-e.html

Tournament Participation Info – Original | PDF – note that this is more about the rules of participating in a tournament (not the rules of the game itself), and includes various other useful info on participating in them. (All credit to Syphus and the original Japanese source for the document.)

Brief Wikipedia Section – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_karuta#Rules

If you have any questions on the rules, the best place to ask right now is probably the Karuta subreddit or Discord, where there are lots of friendly people that would be happy to help you!