tanzaku

English

The cherry blossom tanzaku playing card in Japanese hanafuda (left) and Korean hwatu (right).

Noun

tanzaku (plural tanzaku)

  1. (Japanese culture) A slip of paper that can be written on, especially those hung on bamboo or other trees during the Tanabata festival.
  3. (card games, hanafuda) A hanafuda playing card depicting a tanzaku (slip of paper) attached to the plant corresponding to the card's suit.
    • 2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation, →ISBN, The Path, page 64:
      On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese. When he tried to include the "Willow with Tanzaku" card in a "Nanatan" suit, someone pointed out, "Oh, but the 'Willow with Tanzaku' isn't allowed."

Translations

Japanese

Romanization

tanzaku

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんざく
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