Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s, whicha player may make either with the cards originally dealt him or withthree taken up. These combinations are called yahu or pri They are reckoned as equivalent to one or more kwan of twelve points. Thecounts are extremely numerous and complicated, and there are severalvarieties of the game. For a detailed account consult Korean Games. »Bibliography: C.M. Belshaw, liana Fuda, the Japanese Flower Gam*monly known by the Japanese aa Bachi-jn-hachi or Eightj -eight, 9 pp., > »., J i hama, L892.R. Lehmann. Geaellschaftspiele der Japaner, IT. l: Ita garuta, ma Ml 924 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. The oame applied to cards, caruta, is certainly the Spanish carta, butthe cards appear to be distinctly Japanese, and to contain a suggestionof the primitive modes of thought under which they doubtless origi-nated. 82. Ganjifa. Playing-Oards.1 Lucknow, India. Set of ninety-six circular cards. Thin disks of lacquered card, 1£inches in diameter. Backs plain red. Faces bear suit marks on
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Fig. 223.Hindu playing-card (Pdragu-Rdmd). Cat. No. 19135, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. grounds of different colors. There are eight suits (rang, colors), oftwelve cards each, consisting of ten numerals and two court cards, published), Mittheilungen d. deutschen Gesellschaft f. Natur- und VolkerkundeOstasiens, III. Pt.30,pp. 122-425,4to.,Yokohama, 1883. II. Spencer Palmer, Hana-awase, with colored facsimiles of playing-cards on fourplates (Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, XIX (Pt. 3), pp. 545-564), 8vo., Yoko-hama, L891. Mrs. ,J. King Van Rensselaer, Playing-Cards from Japan, with plates, 3 pp. (Pro-ceedings U. S.Nat. Mus., 1891, 8vo., Washington). The writer is indebted for the above list to Fr. Von Wencksterns Bibliography ofthe Japanese Empire, Leiden, 1895. < at. No. 15280. Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. Mi. Ramaohandrayya informs me that the chief place of manufacture of playing-cards in India is Kondapalle, in the Presidency of Madras. CHESS AND PLAYING-C

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