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Yukino
TriadCity Character
Seven items go in the sake cup, which you give to the poet. Which seven, I cannot tell you, but this is what I have learned through days of trial-and-error. Anyone have a suggestion as to what I should group together?
Vohno
TriadCity Character
Hanafuda is a Japanese gambling card game which became popular during the height of the Yakuza era. Hanafuda was developed from a combination of a traditional court game involving matching plants and animals associated with seasons, and with Western-style playing cards, introduced by Dutch sailors. It is commonly played in Hawaii, and also in Korea under the name Go Stop. It is a four-person game, and is often paired cross-table
Vohno
TriadCity Character
Cards

There are twelve suits, representing months. Each is designated a flower, and each suit has four cards. Typically, there are two 'normal' cards worth no points, one ribbon-card worth ten points, and a third is a special worth 25 points

January
Pine
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Poetry Ribbon and 1 Special: Crane and Sun

February
Plum Blossoms
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Poetry Ribbon and 1 Special: Nightingale in a Tree

March
Cherry Blossoms
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Poetry Ribbon and 1 Special: Banner and Flowers

April
Wisteria
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Poetry Ribbon and 1 Special: Cuckoo in a Tree

May
Iris
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Red Ribbon and 1 Special: Water Iris at Dock

June
Peony
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Red Ribbon and 1 Special: Butterflies

July
Clover
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Purple Ribbon and 1 Special: Boar

August
Pampas
Cards: 2 Normal, 2 Specials: Birds in Flight, Full Moon with Red Sky

September
Chrysanthemum
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Purple Ribbon and 1 Special: Poetry Sake Cup

October
Maple
Cards: 2 Normal, 1 Purple Ribbon and 1 Special: Deer under Tree

November
Willow
Cards: 1 Red Ribbon and 3 Specials: Wild card, Swallow, Man with Umbrealla Strolling (Rainman)

December
Paulownia
Cards: 3 Normal (one yellow-colored), Special: Phoenix
Vohno
TriadCity Character
The 'rain' card portrays a story about a Heian Era calligrapher named Ono no Michigaze (commonly called 'Ono no Tofu'). As a young man he was walking in the rain and saw a frog attempting to eat an insect in a willow tree. Watching the frog fail again and again before ultimately succeeding he learned the value of perseverence.
Yukino
TriadCity Character
This is the information I found on wikipedia.org when I was researching it... it doesn't help much when you don't know what purple ribbons (for example) are analogous to in TriadCity. --;
Palchinsky
TriadCity Character
Hello,

I am the builder who designed the Hanafuda Garden. I am very gratified that people (or whatever you are) are exploring and enjoying my garden.

I have a few hints and clarifications. First, Hanafuda is the deck not the game. That is the first misconception that I noticed in this discussion. Like a western style playing deck you can play a number of games. There are many hints in the garden itself from which game come the 7 card hands you must give the poet.

The Korean game mentioned, Go stop, is a version of the Japanese game Koi Koi (Come on). This is not the game you are playing in the garden.

I noticed that the web has a very small amount of information on this deck and the games you can play with it. The Wikipedia.org info is close, but many people looking at the cards may make mistakes about what the symbols truly are. One should be able to determine what the "ribbons" are in the garden by the process of elimination.

Miscellaneous trivia. The Nintendo company designed and sold board games and card games before it entered the electronic game/playstation business. At the turn of the 20th century its flagship product was the Hanafuda deck.

Have fun in the garden. --Pyotr Palchinsky
 
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