Hanafuda Games: Hanami Edition

This book organizes the various hanafuda and hwatu card games based on the category of card game they are and the difficulty. This book is really nice and neatly organized and the rules are simple and easy to understand. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking to get into these types of cards because they are very fun!

This book is the best that I have seen with instructions to enjoy Hanafuda games. There are so many variations that you should never get tired of playing. The book is very easy to read. It is organized well. There are color depictions of the cards. Each individual game is described with its difficulty, number of players, exactly what cards are used and the objective of the game. Scoring examples are given for each game. If you wish to learn to play with the beautiful Hanafuda cards this book is a must.

Well written and easy to understand book. Explains the games wonderfully. Nice illustrations and great addition to add to the game library. We learned Hanafuda Hawaii style when we lived on Oahu from a Japanese seniors group and have enjoyed it ever since. Expand your horizons and learn a new, old card game. Versions of which are significant through out the Pacific in various forms. This book does a good job introducing you to a few different ways of playing some new and some old and significant to different cultures. If you are an old Hanafuda pro I still find this a good read and access to some new ways to play you may not know of. Will help you teach other too.

Loved the book easy to read and find the games I was looking for. My only complaint is that the illustrations show custom art for the cards not the traditional art, and they don't have decks of those cards available. So it can be hard to translate what card the book is talking about sometimes.

Loving it so far! Lots of clear instructions for each game and excellent intro "game" for beginners. The only downside is that it shows a different card style than the Nintendo hanafuda set. I laid them on the book for reference photos when I play with friends.

History on the cards, colored pictures throughout the book, and many games to choose from.

Excellent, beautifully illustrated book that teaches many games to play with your Hanafuda 🎴deck of cards. Luv it!

The two people behind IndianWolf Studios, the husband and wife team of Jason and Antonietta Johnson, have created a wonderful rule-book as part of two project that also included the creation of two custom decks of Hanafuda playing cards, the Hanami edition and the Sensu edition. Apparently rules for Hanafudu games can be hard to find or interpret, so IndianWolf Studios has done the hard work for us by putting this material together into a lovely book, which is available as a hard copy or as an eBook.It's an impressive full-colour 236 page book, and contains a collection of 37 different games organized into sections for four main types of games: Capture Games, Sequence Games, Luck Games, and Fusion Solitaire Games. Within each section the games are arranged by difficulty, using a handy color code. A final section at the end of the book contains handy Quick Reference Charts, which help out with scoring. Within the explanations themselves are game-play and scoring examples, pictures, and variants.Some of the Fusion Games will be immediately familiar to anyone who has some experience with Western card games, such as the three solitaire games Pyramid, Solitaire, and Eight Off, while games like Hana-Rumi and Hana-Gin have obvious parallels with the counterparts that inspired them: Rummy and Gin. But these are mainly designed to get people familiar with the Hanafuda deck. And it is really the Hanafuda games in this book that are of special interest.The Luck Games are good for social settings, and are fast and fun, whereas the Sequence Games require you to empty your hand and have a more serious and thoughtful feel to the game-play. But what people will especially find interesting is the Capture Games category, where game-play revolves around capturing cards from a field and creating point-scoring combinations. This style of gameplay is reminiscent of traditional and popular card games like Scopa and Cassino.If you are starting from scratch, I'd recommend beginning with the Simplified Game for Beginners and with Matching Flowers, to familiarize yourself with the cards. Then eventually work yourself up to the classic and popular Japanese two player game Koi-Koi. When you're ready for it, give the more complex 2-7 player game Go-Stop a try, because this is arguably the most popular game played with Hanafuda cards in Korea. Higo-bana is a version of Hanafuda that is very popular in Hawaii, and is also included in the book, and can be recommended.The beauty of a good rulebook like this one, is that it is a terrific resource that really helps people with a Hanafuda deck get started in exploring this new world of possibilities. An excellent volume that I highly recommend to anyone interested in games that can be played with Hanafuda playing cards. - BoardGameGeek reviewer EndersGame

increíble colección de juegos es un excelente libro para entender lo que son los sistemas de juego y toda la diversidad de juegos y mecánicas que se pueden lograr con elementos simples. Además facilita la barrera del idioma

Un libro di messa, un testo quasi universitario, la parola definitiva sulle carte Hanafuda.

L'ouvrage est bien et joli. Orienté vers le jeu de carte produit par l'auteur: il est le résultant d'un kickstarter.Je m'attendais à avoir plus d'explications sur le déroulé des différents jeux. Il s'agit plus d'un recensement technique de règles sans l'ajout de conseils humain pour chaque jeu. Par exemple la différence entre le Studa simple et le studa normal m'a pris un moment pour comprendre la différence. Je n'ai pas perçu la différence en terme de jouabilité.

Es una buena guía, y una de las pocas que hay en algo que no sea japonés, para conoder los juegos con la baraja japonesa o hanafuda. Por otra parte hay algunas descripciones de los juegos que en algun punto no parecen cien por cien coherentes. Quizás por la voluntad de querer recoger todas las posibles variaciones.