Fukuwarai
Children's and Folk Games
Japanese children's face-placing game for New Year
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Fukuwarai
- Children's and Folk Games
Fukuwarai is a Japanese children's game popular during New Year's celebrations. Blindfolded players place cutout facial features, including eyes, eyebrows, a nose and a mouth, onto a featureless paper face on a table. The results often depend on luck and can be amusing. Thought to date from the late Edo period, it commonly uses the lucky faces of okame or hyottoko and is played to welcome the New Year.
- Country
- Japan
- How it is played
- Blindfolded players place facial-feature cutouts on a paper face.
- Origin
- Thought to date from the late Edo period
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Fukuwarai (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q4115814
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Nesnad. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia CommonsNesnad, Own workModifications: Placed on a plain background, resized and converted to WebP
- Popularity
- 12 median daily views (Wikimedia Pageviews API (all-access, user agent))
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