Recommended Souvenirs in Fukushima Prefecture! Fukushima's interesting karuta game, a great way to study dialects!

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I put "Fu", "Ku", "Shi", and "Ma" side by side.

Fukushima Omoshiro Karuta" conveys the daily life of Fukushima in Fukushima dialect.

Have you ever heard of a karuta game that features playing cards with Fukushima dialects? This time, we would like to introduce an original karuta produced and sold by a gallery in Koriyama City that is overflowing with love for Fukushima.
Very colorful!

Kazuhiro Sato, a gallery owner in Koriyama City, and Morito Toyonaga, a Ryukyu papier-mâché artist from Okinawa, have always been friends. They started full-scale production out of a desire to create an original Fukushima karuta and a desire to support Fukushima after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

A", "I", "U", "E", "O

All the designs are drawn with glass pictures. Glass painting is a type of painting in which people and landscapes are painted on one side of a transparent, flat sheet of glass using special paints, and are viewed from behind the glass. It is said to be difficult to paint because it is impossible to add or reapply paint and the painted surface is viewed from the reverse side, so the left and right sides of the painting are reversed. The fact that it is difficult to draw well is the flavor of this karuta," says Sato.

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What we would like to draw your attention to is the reading cards expressed in Fukushima dialect! The cards are made with dialects used in the Aizu, Hamadori, and Nakadori regions of Fukushima, and each area has its own explanation. Each card has a written explanation, so you can learn the dialect while playing karuta!
Picture cards "A," "I," "U," "E," "O
Reading cards "A," "I," "U," "E," "O
Picture cards: "F," "K," "S," "Ma
Reading cards "F," "K," "S," and "Ma
The cards are sold at the Fukushima Sightseeing Product Center in "Collasse Fukushima" located at the west exit of Fukushima Station, Fukushima Airport, and Roadside Station Namie. How about one as a souvenir of Fukushima? Everyone from the elderly to small children can enjoy playing this karuta game. Let's play it together!

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The information in this article is current as of February 2023.
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